Rycona wrote:

Quantinuum wrote: I love mathematics... EDIT: I'll probably be flamed now. You shouldn't be. A hatred of math is completely contrary nowadays as most of people lives are guided by computers in one way or another which of course, all run on 0s and 1s being processed. Math IS science. Math is physics. There is math in everything. Everything in the universe reacts to everything else according to its properties and there are mathematical representations for all of it, even if we can't find some. There's even math in animal behavior. I mean, we are essentially organic computers born with a base instinct (much like an operating system) and then every after is learned bahavior (programs). Due to these instincts, which is a matter of genetics and brain composition, we take in stimuli differently, primarily using the information in a survival sense. Of course this day in age, it's not so much anymore with how easy can be now compared to our early ancestors. We are what AI strives to be. Our AI is essentially no different in terms of programmed AI other than the capability to learn and adjust, which they are overcoming through actual programs to some extent. We have judge factors and make decisions based on those factors at every single little moment, it's just that quite a bit of what runs us isn't directly visible to our minds, the subconscious. Anyway, I know you're probably just hating on Math partially for fun, but if you didn't have any comprehension for the subject, you'd likely not live a normal life in this world. Regardless of your personal feelings about Math, putting a math article up which consists of the concise statement that it sucks is weaked-minded and also a very lame joke. You at least could've come up with something witty or at least something of entertainment value, you know, something that can be processed, at least by my mind, as a joke. Saying that you hate something isn't funny unless you at least have a follow up or something. Flame on.

It's funny, at college I'm majoring in AI as well as math. I liked what you said. I've always thought of a human as a machine that has the same fundamental components as a computer. For example, Hardware (Our physical components like organs etc.), software (The mental component where we run algorithms and programs to do certain actions), etc. If the soul exists maybe that is the "user" of the human machine. Also, we are all programmers because when you learn something new, like learning to skate, you are developing a program in your head to control the way your legs move so you don't fall over. Of course there are "in-built" programs a.k.a reflexes to deal with what will happen when you stumble etc.

Anyway, I'll talk more about this later, I need to be studying for an exam.