Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Friday, 30-May-14 01:05:58 UTC
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@snowcone The problem though is that computers don't need stimulation, humans do. You could program a computer to consume food but that doesn't mean it's digesting it and breaking down the nutrients to give it energy. Moreover, humans experience boredom, but a computer would just view boredom as another task. Computers don't have dopamine that is released to reward them upon being stimulated, they just do it because they're supposed to without even knowing why.
And how can it ponder it's programmer if it's never been programmed to do so? Humans ponder a god not just to explain the unknown, but because they have the impulse to ask such a question, whereas it can't even be proven a computer is aware of its own existence.
As for random, seeing blue during that day is still subconsciously influencing the choice. The computer would simply run a program that's the equivalent of a coin toss to make its truly random choice.
