The difference between a script and a program is one is a subset of another. A program is typically a piece of text that contains instructions. A script is a program that is interpreted in real time and then turns it into a lower level language. Of course, that leaves java, which isn't a script language, in a fuzzy definition.

As someone taught me, the opposite of black isn't white. The opposite of black is non-black. Think ven diagrams. :)

So the real question is, is, is consciousness a script or non-script. I think it's both. As a non-script program, we have things we don't need to put prior thought into.. things we may or may not even have a definite solution on. As a script program, we have problems and run through different scenarios, sketching out many solutions and scenarios in our heads and then running then thinking them out to see if they are really valid.

That's part of what makes us human, the ability to improvise and act upon it.


Play that funky music white boy..

In reply to Re: Script or program? by exussum0
in thread Script or program? by jeffpflueger

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