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by ! on December 14th, 2010

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Is it not possible that we might create consciousness and another reality inside a computer world?

with the advancement of computers, it seems possible that programs might have some ability to understand self and have some ability to be aware? all that seems needed is a motivational premise and a mathematical formulae that is close to evolutionary principals?

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  • by RosieGHM Jetpacker on December 14th, 2010

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    Is the movie Tron something like that? I don't know how "smart" computers will become. Do they learn from their mistakes and try something new consistently and continually? Personally I think many people are already owned by electronic gadgets...whether computer or ipad or ipod or blackberry or cell phone. Not much further they can go into an alternate reality in my opinion! :)

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  • by Doyler - you have got to be kidding me! on December 14th, 2010

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    all in the mind - i reckon there is an addiction parellel possibility here and that indeed is the dimension - otherwise its just a game!

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  • by I'm Just Along For The Ride on December 14th, 2010

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    we already, I belive, are at the point where computers can "think"..

    I remember back in 1972, IBM hired the world chess champion, Bobby Fischer to play chess with and match wits with their latest mainframe computers..see if they could "think" as he could...

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  • by Loud22 on December 14th, 2010

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    Given a seemingly endless timescale anything is possible. Computers already exhibit intelligence comparable to plants and some animals. An understanding of the self comes with higher intelligence so at some point as we make them more intelligent they could one day become self-aware.

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  • by WABOO on December 14th, 2010

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    The limitation of man to create a thinking machine makes it unlikely.

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  • by Prunesquallor on December 14th, 2010

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    It has been suggested that intelligent self-awareness might be an emergent characteristic of any sufficiently complex system. We are a long way from that; however, once we can design computers that can themselves design superior computers, we will have set into motion something that theoretically could reach that point in a very short period of time.

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  • by engineer is Terminator on December 14th, 2010

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    To be honest, no.Computing has it's origin from assembly of some complex logic circuits and logic runs on binary mathematics.So, if you want to go beyond the premises of mathematics to design something with computers, it's not going to happen.However, you could use the same mathematics to create an environment as you have described.We have succeeded up to some extent in creating artificial intelligence, but to create another human brain using computers, it should be like trillions of logic embedded inside another trillion and still we would find flaws.
    Anything man made has no scope of evolution, but to scope for enhancements is for sure.
    May be with the technological advancements, we might reach something close to it, but nothing like creating and exact replica of human brain.

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  • by Gone_Hunting ! on December 14th, 2010

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    It's about time you found out ,,,,,,you're actually a 'Sims" type character in an advance race's PC game,someone left the game on and unattended that's why you've been wondering about aimlessly.

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