quantum computing - color forth

Trying not to be redundant this is a post about the post at the following address: http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm And I just wanted to draw attention to the following note which I'm going to try and grab ------------- href="http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm"

8. Programs that think The mystery of consciousness has intrigued philosophers for a long time. It now seems apparant that just as life is a result of complex organization, so is consciousness. It is somehow a byproduct of complex interactions among data. Interactions so complex they only occur in mammalian brains. Therefore, one way of investigating the mind is to experiment with manipulating data. The obvious way to do this is on a computer. We now have a program with capabilities previously unattainable. Why not use it in such a way as to probe the realm of 'thinking'? I don't propose that you become a psychobiologist. But you can have a lot of fun, and do some really impressive things with simple extensions to your program. I will describe a number of entries of unusual capability. If you have an application that can use them, or if you can create an application to use them, by all means give them a try. However, the Basic Principle forbids you including them without a purpose. They are sufficiently elaborate and sufficiently specialized as to never prove unexpectedly valuable. I have had all the entries I describe in a single program. This program had less than 1500 instructions so it is practical to include everything in a single program. But I was experimenting, and never found an application that needed a fraction of them. note also from the top of the above post ---- Programs that think Word dissection Level definitions Infinite dictionary Infinite memory The above was written in 1970 - and I don't know if ever the subject of the mystery of consciousness was previously discussed as regards computers in a serious way... It was frequently discussed at that time in terms of " fiction "..... Since then there has been a bit of serious conversation as well as technical work on the subject. --- Note; on note; ---- the post was actually a document from the 1970's that was posted.(??????><) Anyway, the above is Charles Moore ... as well as web site link.