Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[Tommi]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 12:04:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/8/2013 2:02 AM, Tommi wrote:
>>> I don't buy that. Humans don't process data like computers do.
>>
>> Humans don't and _can't_ process data like computers do, but 
>> computers _can_
>> process data like humans do.
>>
>> Human brain does it's computation in a highly parallel manner, 
>> but signals run
>> much slower than they do in computers. What human brain does 
>> is a very specific
>> process, optimized for survival on planet Earth.
>>
>> But computers are generic computation devices. They can model 
>> any computational
>> processes, including the ones that human brain uses (at least 
>> once we get some
>> more cores in our computers).
>
> Except that we have no idea how brains actually work.

"How to Create a Mind" makes a pretty convincing argument to the 
contrary. It's true that we don't have the full picture of how 
brains work. But both the temporal and spatial resolution of that 
picture is increasing rapidly with better brain scanners.

> Are fruit flies self-aware? Probably not. Are dogs? Definitely. 
> So at what point between fruit flies and dogs does 
> self-awareness start?
>
> We have no idea. None at all.

"How to Create a Mind" talks plenty of consciousness as well. My 
personal guess is that consciousness is not a binary property.

I feel I should get some royalties for plugging that book like 
this.