On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:12 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *> What was the biochemical or neural change that suddenly birthed the >> feeling of pain? * > > > It would not be difficult to make a circuit such that that whenever a > specific binary sequence of zeros and ones is in a register the circuit > stops doing everything else and changes that sequence to something else > as fast as possible. As I've said before, intelligence is hard but > emotion is easy. > I believe I have made simple neural networks that are conscious and can experience both pleasure and displeasure, insofar as they have evolved to learn and apply multiple and various strategies for both attraction and avoidance behaviors. They can achieve this even with just 16 artificial neurons and within only a dozen generations of simulated evolution: https://github.com/jasonkresch/bots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBsqlWQTts&list=PLq_mdJjNRPT11IF4NFyLcIWJ1C0Z3hTAX&index=2 I am of course interested in hearing any arguments for why these bots are either capable of some primitive sensation or not. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUiE3oAds_DoJ1XXQN7NbwezozCoqh_j-%2BizORdCusOz-w%40mail.gmail.com.
