On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:38:03 -0700 Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's easy to argue that a machine has no soul, etc. > But, is machine produced music (or anything else for that matter) > really just machine produced music? Or is it music produced by a real > human who has directed or even created a machine to be an extension > of himself? It will depend how much 'freedom' the machine has. Yes, persons built it, but aren't those persons making their utmost effort to develop a machine that can come up with decisions taken on its own, independent from the creators ? Isn't that the premise of artificial intelligence ? If not, we are also made, somehow. Biological machines. But we think we are free. As a spin to this, Elon Musk, of Telsa, SpaceX, Paypal, etc, declared yesterday that "we are ‘almost definitely’ living in a Matrix-style simulation" _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
