Re:Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It...
by jamesrcole on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:05AM
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I'd add that "robotic" is, in most uses of the term, extremely vague. In those uses, it doesn't have a clear meaning, it's just a term for referring to things that appear like how present-day automated machinery appears to us.
It's like people who think "computer" means something that appears like the kinds of silicon-based computers we engineer at present, rather than understanding it in terms of the rigorous notion of computation, as something that can perform computation (which can be performed in such widely varying ways, in so many different media)
It's like people who think "computer" means something that appears like the kinds of silicon-based computers we engineer at present, rather than understanding it in terms of the rigorous notion of computation, as something that can perform computation (which can be performed in such widely varying ways, in so many different media)