Re: Sentience

From: Rahul Jain (rjain_at_nyct.net)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:38:41 GMT

André Thieme <this.address.is.good.until.2004.apr.17@justmail.de> writes:

> Another example:
> in a school you give the pupils some dice, and every pupil has to throw
> it 100 times and write down the number.
> If one kid has 100 times on his paper a "3" you would not believe him
> that he did it correctly. Because 100 times a 3 is information, not
> randomness. An intelligence is needed to create information.

Salt crystals are therefore the product of an intelligence.

I don't get it. 

-- 
Rahul Jain
rjain@nyct.net
Professional Software Developer, Amateur Quantum Mechanicist

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