On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> > On 21 Oct 2012, at 18:42, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> On 20 Oct 2012, at 23:16, John Mikes wrote: >> >> Bruno, >> especially in my identification as "responding to relations". >> Now the "Self"? IT certainly refers to a more sophisticated level of >> thinking, more so than the average (animalic?) mind. - OR: we have no >> idea. What WE call 'Self-Ccness' is definitely a human attribute because WE >> identify it that way. I never talked to a cauliflower to clarify whether >> she feels like having a self? (In cauliflowerese, of course). >> >> >> My feeling was first that all homeotherm animals have self-consciousness, >> as they have the ability to dream, easily realted to the ability to build a >> representation of one self. Then I have enlarged the spectrum up to some >> spiders and the octopi, just by reading a lot about them, looking video. >> >> But this is just a personal appreciation. For the plant, let us say I >> know nothing, although I supect possible consciousness, related to >> different scalings. >> >> The following theory seems to have consciousness, for different reason >> (the main one is that it is Turing Universal): >> >> x + 0 = x >> x + s(y) = s(x + y) >> >> x *0 = 0 >> x*s(y) = x*y + x >> >> But once you add the very powerful induction axioms: which say that if a >> property F is true for zero, and preserved by the successor operation, then >> it is true for all natural numbers. That is the infinity of axioms: >> >> (F(0) & Ax(F(x) -> F(s(x))) -> AxF(x), >> >> with F(x) being any formula in the arithmetical language (and thus >> defined with "0, s, +, *), >> >> Then you get Löbianity, and this makes it as much conscious as you and >> me. Indeed, they got a rich theology about which they can develop maximal >> awareness, and even test it by comparing the physics retrievable by that >> theology, and the observation and inference on their most probable >> neighborhoods. >> >> Löbianity is the treshold at which any new axiom added will create and >> enlarge the machine ignorance. It is the utimate modesty treshold. >> >> >> > Bruno, > > Might there be still other axioms (which we are not aware of, or at least > do not use) that could lead to even higher states of consciousness than we > presently have? > > > > Yes, there are interesting transfinities below and beyond omega_1^CK (the > Kleene Church first non constructive ordinal). This has plausibly, with > comp, some relation with possible consciousness states (but that is not > obvious and depends on definitions). > > > > > Also, it isn't quite clear to me how something needs to be added to Turing > universality to expand the capabilities of consciousness, if all > consciousness is the result of computation. > > > > Gosh! It is only recent, for me, that I even think that universal machines > are already conscious. I thought Lôbianity was needed. But then it is > basically the same as the consciousness-->self-consciousness type of > consciousness "enrichment/delusion". In a sense, abstract universality is > maximally conscious, maximally undeluded, or awake, somehow. > This is not quite what I meant (I remain undecided on your proposition that all Turing machines are conscious). What I meant is that any Turing machine could perform any computation, so if all conscious states are the result of computation, then all that is needed to produce that conscious state is any Turing machine (running the appropriate computation). Therefore, if computation is all that is needed, why do different axioms have to come into it? Why is an induction axiom needed for human consciousness? > > But Turing universality is cheap and concerns an ability to imitate other > machine, not to understand them, so for provability and beliefs, and > knowledge there are transfinite improvement and enlargement possible. > We are not just conscious, we differentiate in developing beliefs, and get > greater and greater view on truth. > I can see how different axioms are needed to justify different beliefs, but it isn't so clear to me how they are needed for different conscious states. Unless we are talking about conscious states like of believing 7 is prime because of some other axioms. > > > It is like you might be near doing a kind of "Searle error" perhaps. A > computation can emulate consciousness, but the computation is not > conscious, only the person emulated by that computations, she can always > progress infinitely (even if "restricted" on the search of arithmetical > truth), develop more and more beliefs and knowledge. Particular universal > machines will develop particular parts (even if transfinite) of > arithmetical truth. > > But G and G*, that is the modal logic of the provability of the Löbian > machines, is a treshold. Despite growing transfinitely on her knowledge(s) > of the arithmetical truth, as long as they remain self-referentially > correct, they will obey to G and G*, for their theory of provability. If > consistent, they will for ever been able to prove that they are consistent, > for example, and they can prove that for themselves. The abstract theology > is invariant despite the evolution of the arithmetical content of the B in > Bp. PA and ZF have very different arithmetical beliefs, but both obeys to G > and G*. > > Consciousness, from the first person perspective is more related to "all > computations" going through my states, than any particular computations. > The living self is not a computer, it is a believer, supported by > infinities of computer (by UDA). > > I am happy you are open to the idea that universal machine are all > conscious, it is then, the state of "you" before developing any more > beliefs than those making you universal. Your first person indeterminacy, > in that state, is all other possible machine/dreams. > I have had a similar idea, that there are some (one?) universal starting points (states), which lead to all others. Perhaps this computation state is like an empty or null state, or perhaps close to an infinite all encompassing state. > The Löbian machine knows that they are universal, and so knows the price > to pay, for "staying consistent", like the possibility of crashing, in > front of the unknown arithmetical truth. > > > > Thanks, > > > You are welcome. > > Bruno > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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