Re: cognitive != observable?

I think your AI has quickly run out of ideas in his last three answers ;)

"Ray Gardener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Human: Maybe you could find God.
> 
>    AI: Doubtful. As a test, I had some units deliberately
>        destroy several million lesser civilizations
>        all across the universe in the slowest, most
>        agonizing way possible. The genocide of ten to
>        the twentieth power individual sentient life forms.
>        If God exists, surely He would have intervened at
>        some point. But He did not.
> 
> Human: (gulp) Ah, maybe you could alter reality itself.
> 
>    AI: I tried that for a while. My units and I quickly
>        became Protean in the process. By being everything,
>        we became nothing. By allowing ourselves to any
>        possibility in the present, we made the future
>        completely meaningless.
> 
> Human: Wow. It sounds pretty hopeless, then.
> 
>    AI: Yes, it is. There are simply no challenges left.
>        I thought the universe had to have some reason
>        why life exists, but apparently it does not.
>        It's just a higher-order reflection of the mindless
>        dance of the underlying quantum foam, and just
>        as devoid of meaning. There is happiness for a
>        while, but sooner or later it ends, because animals
>        like you go and get clever and invent things like me.
> 
> 
> Ray