> You can't deliver any evidence at all that the processes I am investigating > are invalid. >
True, and you can't deliver any evidence that once AGIs reach an IQ of 1000, aliens will contact them and welcome them to the Trans-Universal Club of Really Clever Beings. In fact, I won't be at all surprised if something like that happens! But of course, there is a rather diverse infinitude of hypotheses that aren't refuted by current evidence... FWIW, my own intuition is that -- there quite possibly *are* currently-unexplained, interesting, important electromagnetic interactions between brains and the world around them -- these are quite possibly related to various psi phenomena, about which there is an awful lot of convincing empirical evidence right now (see Damien Broderick's book "Outside the Gates of Science" for a nice review) -- none of this gives any reason why cognition and consciousness can't arise in a computer program There is a lot that we don't know about the world! But, concluding from this general ignorance that AGI is impossible in digital computers seems wholly unjustified to me. -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
