I will check him out, thanks. My point of view is I think everybody has a right point of view, just some are righter than others, and mine suits me as the best available to me.

Hi Darryll,

By the way the book by Richard Dawkins, is the "The Blind Watcmaker", and the one by Peter Plichta is "God’s Secret Formula" (Nothing to do with religion). The problem with Dawkins is he does not have a website, but he has some cheerleaders. The reason for this is that there is a lot of "crazies" out there that does not agree with what he writes. Peter Plichta on their other hand has pissed of quite a few Professors and academics, that he has proved wrong, and has sort of been excorsized by them. I think he holds something like 7 PHd’s interalia, Physics, Pharmacy and Law. Gives some perspective of his mind.

Hope this saves you a bit of reference work.

Regards

Philip

Darrell,

These are are all philosophical questions you pose.

The question to what extent we are in control and what decisions we really make can and have been debated at length by many philosophers.

You misunderstand my comment on ’science fiction’, as I said before it’s impossible to predict what advances will be made.

My view is anything could be proven possible through science.

Regards

James.

Hi Daryll,

On a more serious note, I just had a recall of something I read somewhere you might find interesting for your thesis. In a book by Richard Dawkins (The cheerleader for Darwinism) he discussed the possibility, of evolution, not in the organic chemistry field, but in inorganics. I seem to recall it was either Silates or Silanes (silicon chains) which had the possibility of evolving in a simular was as organic life has. Thus there could evolve super inorganic computer like beings.
Another author who is quite interesting a has patents on these silicon chains, is Dr Peter Plichta, who has written some books on the subject. He actually wrote about prime numbers, but part of the book is devoted to this subject. As a matter of interest he also has a patent on a flying saucer.

Unfortunately I do not keep records of all I read, but you will find both these guys on the internet, as they have websites.
Regards

Philip

Hi Daryll,

Strongly disagree, have explained my thoughts before, but, is still one possibility. If anybody can teach computors politics (which is probably AI as the politicians don’t seem to have any real intelligence) then maybe computors can take over the world. However, the problem is that computors aren’t stupid enough.

Regards

Philip