Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[John Colvin]

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.
>
> 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.

Problem A) Understanding how the human brain processes certain 
types of information.

Problem B) Making a decision about what constitutes 
self-awareness and where to draw the line.

Those are not equivalent problems in the slightest.


Ugh, the conciousness guys give the whole field of neuro-biology 
a bad name. Everyone goes "oh, neuroscience, that's cool, but YOU 
DON'T UNDERSTAND LOVE AND CONSCIOUSNESS LALALALALALA" because 
that's the only side the science media ever talk about.