Re: [agi] Doubts raised over brain scan findings

2009-01-15 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: The whole point about the paper referenced above is that they are collecting (in a large number

Re: [agi] Bayesian surprise attracts human attention

2009-01-15 Thread Richard Loosemore
that covaries with novelty is like shooting fish in a barrel. Of course, it's not like these are the only people making this kind of non-progress ;-) Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

[agi] Doubts raised over brain scan findings

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
of the field. We've attacked from a different direction, but we had a wide range of targets to choose, believe me. The short version of the overall story is that neuroscience is out of control as far as overinflated claims go. Richard Loosemore --- agi

Re: [agi] Doubts raised over brain scan findings

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: For anyone interested in recent discussions of neuroscience and the level of scientific validity to the various brain-scann claims, the study by Vul et al, discussed here: http

Re: [agi] Doubts raised over brain scan findings

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: The whole point about the paper referenced above is that they are collecting (in a large number of cases) data that is just random noise. So what? The paper points out a methodological problem

Re: [agi] initial reaction to A2I2's call center product

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
when it could boast a pickup efficiency of 95%. But I have had the unenviable task of proofreading an entire (Welsh) dictionary in which the OCR did 95% of the work and I did the other 5%. It was a nightmare. That last 5% is where all the action is. Richard Loosemore

Re: [agi] Identity abstraction

2009-01-11 Thread Richard Loosemore
in your posts. The usual etiquette is to put them on a web server somewhere and give pointers in your message sent to the list. Thankyou Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] The Smushaby of Flatway.

2009-01-10 Thread Richard Loosemore
a little explanation - anyone in the AI community). let's take an actual example of good creative thinking happening on the fly - and what I've called directed free association - It's by one Richard Loosemore. You as well as others thought pretty creatively about the problem of the engram

Re: [agi] Identity abstraction

2009-01-10 Thread Richard Loosemore
Loosemore Richard Loosemore wrote: Harry Chesley wrote: On 1/9/2009 9:45 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote: There are certainly experiments that might address some of your concerns, but I am afraid you will have to acquire a general knowledge of what is known, first, to be able to make sense

Re: [agi] The Smushaby of Flatway.

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Loosemore
it dequark the tachyon antimatter containment field? Richard Loosemore Mark Waser wrote: But how can it dequark the tachyon antimatter containment field? Richard, You missed Mike Tintner's explanation . . . . You're not thinking your argument through. Look carefully at my

Re: [agi] Identity abstraction

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Loosemore
, but I am afraid you will have to acquire a general knowledge of what is known, first, to be able to make sense of what they might tell you. There is nothing that can be plucked and delivered as a direct answer. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives

Re: [agi] Identity abstraction

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Loosemore
Harry Chesley wrote: On 1/9/2009 9:45 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote: There are certainly experiments that might address some of your concerns, but I am afraid you will have to acquire a general knowledge of what is known, first, to be able to make sense of what they might tell you

Re: [agi] The Smushaby of Flatway.

2009-01-08 Thread Richard Loosemore
that. But how can it dequark the tachyon antimatter containment field? Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2009-01-01 Thread Richard Loosemore
Jim Bromer wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: My friend Mike Oaksford in the UK has written several papers giving a higher level cognitive theory that says that people are, in fact, doing something like bayesian estimation when then make

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2008-12-29 Thread Richard Loosemore
it. Richard Loosemore --- 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=8660244id_secret=123753653-47f84b

Re: [agi] Alternative Cicuitry

2008-12-28 Thread Richard Loosemore
the exact details of how the analysis mechanism gets implemented in the brain. The same is true of the other predictions). Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Universal intelligence test benchmark

2008-12-26 Thread Richard Loosemore
know if you eventually come to a different conclusion. Richard Loosemore --- 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

Re: [agi] Introducing Steve's Theory of Everything in cognition.

2008-12-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, On 12/25/08, *Richard Loosemore* r...@lightlink.com mailto:r...@lightlink.com wrote: Steve Richfield wrote: Ben, et al, After ~5 months of delay for theoretical work, here are the basic ideas as to how really fast and efficient

Re: [agi] SyNAPSE might not be a joke ---- was ---- Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
they got that way by having a low tolerance for fools, nonsense and people who can't tell the difference between the critique of an idea and a personal insult. ;-) Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now

Re: [agi] SyNAPSE might not be a joke ---- was ---- Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Why is it that people who repeatedly resort to personal abuse like this are still allowed to participate in the discussion on the AGI list? Richard Loosemore Ed Porter wrote: Richard, You originally totally trashed Tononi's paper, including its central core, by saying

Re: [agi] SyNAPSE might not be a joke ---- was ---- Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-23 Thread Richard Loosemore
of my time. With other papers that contain more coherent substance, but perhaps what looks like an error, I would make the effort. But not this one. It will have to be left as an exercise for the reader, I'm afraid. Richard Loosemore P.S. A hint. All I remember was that he started talking

Re: [agi] SyNAPSE might not be a joke ---- was ---- Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-23 Thread Richard Loosemore
that their thoughts are still ungelled. Anyhow, that's my quick thoughts on him. I'll see if I can dig out his book at some point. Richard Loosemore On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com mailto:r...@lightlink.com wrote: Ed Porter wrote

Re: [agi] SyNAPSE might not be a joke ---- was ---- Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-22 Thread Richard Loosemore
Tononi's work, because I listened to him give a talk about consciousness once. It was *computationally* incoherent. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303

Re: [agi] Relevance of SE in AGI

2008-12-22 Thread Richard Loosemore
that will give these people the ability to think about intelligent systems in new ways. That is why I am working on Safaire. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive

Re: [agi] Relevance of SE in AGI

2008-12-22 Thread Richard Loosemore
by their weak ability to build software systems. In this case, the science is being crippled by the lack of tools, so there is no such thing as premature attention to engineering. Richard Loosemore ben g On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com mailto:r

Robots with a sense of touch [WAS Re: [agi] AGI Preschool....]

2008-12-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
or closer together. How about: http://www.geekologie.com/2006/06/nanoparticles_give_robots_prec.php or http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163701010 Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive

Cross-Cultural Discussion using English [WAS Re: [agi] Creativity ...]

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
obnoxiousness, non-Americans interpret more seriously. Richard Loosemore I think we had some mutual colleagues in the past who favored such a style of discourse ;-) ben On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Pei Wang mail.peiw...@gmail.com mailto:mail.peiw...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec

Re: Cross-Cultural Discussion using English [WAS Re: [agi] Creativity ...]

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
is an exacerbating factor, is all. Richard Loosemore On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: And when a Chinese doesn't answer a question, it usually means No ;-) Relatedly, I am discussing with some US gov't people a potential project involving customizing

Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
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Re: [agi] Building a machine that can learn from experience

2008-12-18 Thread Richard Loosemore
Rafael C.P. wrote: Cognitive computing: Building a machine that can learn from experience http://www.physorg.com/news148754667.html Neuroscience vaporware. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed

Re: [agi] CopyCat

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
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Re: FW: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-11 Thread Richard Loosemore
data on it, whereas the implication in what you just said was that this floppy disk could be used to transfer the contents of the Googleplex :-). Not so fast, I say. Richard Loosemore On 12/11/08, Terren Suydam ba...@yahoo.com wrote: After talking to an old professor of mine

[agi] Religious attitudes to NBIC technologies

2008-12-08 Thread Richard Loosemore
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Re: [agi] Seeking CYC critiques

2008-12-06 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Matt, On 12/6/08, *Matt Mahoney* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Sat, 12/6/08, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Internet AGIs are the technology of the future, and always will be. There will

[agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
that? Richard Loosemore --- 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=8660244id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
. Not just [memory-for-your-first-kiss] affecting the DNA, but the whole shebang. If it turns out that this is the correct interpretation, then this is one hell of a historic moment. I must say, I am still a little skeptical, but we'll see how it plays out. Richard Loosemore Ben Goertzel

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Harry Chesley wrote: On 12/3/2008 8:11 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote: Am I right in thinking that what these people: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026845.000-memories-may-be-stored-on-your-dna.html are saying is that memories can be stored as changes in the DNA inside neurons

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Philip Hunt wrote: 2008/12/3 Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026845.000-memories-may-be-stored-on-your-dna.html are saying is that memories can be stored as changes in the DNA inside neurons? No. They are saying memories might be stored as changes

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
in half. All fun and interesting, but now back to the real AGI Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
the knowledge storage used by individuals yet, this is still possible. There: I invented a possible mechanism. Does it work? Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
that something is snipping and recombining the actual code of the junk DNA, only that the state of the switches is being used to code for something. Question is: can the state of the switches be preserved during reproduction? Richard Loosemore --- agi

Re: [agi] AIXI (was: Mushed Up Decision Processes)

2008-11-30 Thread Richard Loosemore
to escape some people. Richard Loosemore --- 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=8660244id_secret=120640061

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
the original Quiroga et al paper, and all the criticism directed against our paper on this list, in the last week or so, has completely ignored the actual content of that argument. Richard Loosemore On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben

Re: [agi] who is going to build the wittgenstein-ian AI filter to spot all the intellectual nonsense

2008-11-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
://hyperlogic.blogspot.com/ at a minimum wittgenstein's Brown Book should be required reading for all AGI list members Read it. Along with pretty much everything else he wrote (that is in print, anyhow). Calling things a category error is a bit of a cop out. Richard Loosemore

Re: [agi] who is going to build the wittgenstein-ian AI filter to spot all the intellectual nonsense

2008-11-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
where the University is!), but it would be dangerous to assume that we can sort the wheat from the chaff and get it right every time, no? Richard Loosemore On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tudor Boloni wrote

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
the clock back to an era when we knew very little about what might be going on. If Quiroga et al do a better job now, then that is all to the good. But Harley and I had a broader perspective, and we feel that the overall standards are pretty low. Richard Loosemore

Re: [agi] who is going to build the wittgenstein-ian AI filter to spot all the intellectual nonsense

2008-11-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
/2008/11/draft_consciousness_rpwl.pdf Richard Loosemore --- 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

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
data: they tried to say what that data implied. Richard Loosemore Their conclusion, to quote them, is that How neurons encode different percepts is one of the most intriguing questions in neuroscience. Two extreme hypotheses are schemes based on the explicit representations

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, On 11/20/08, *Richard Loosemore* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, Broad agreement, with one comment from the end of your posting... On 11/20/08, *Richard Loosemore* [EMAIL

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
are saying that when they talk about the spike trains encoding bayesian contingencies, they NEVER mean, or imply, contingencies between concepts? Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard, My point was that there are essentially no neuroscientists out there who believe that concepts are represented by single neurons. So you are in vehement agreement

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, object-concepts and the like. Not place, motion or action 'concepts'. For example, Quiroga et al showed their subjects pictures of famous places and people, then made assertions about how

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
encode relationships between concepts. And yet now you make another assertion about something that you think is well known among neuroscientists, while completely ignoring the actual argument that Harley and I brought to bear on this issue. Richard Loosemore ben g On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: I saw the main point of Richard's paper as being that the available neuroscience data drastically underdetermines the nature of neural knowledge representation ... so

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They want some kind of mixture of sparse and multiply redundant and not distributed. The whole point of what we wrote was that there is no consistent interpretation of what they tried to give

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Loosemore
that it really does all hang together, and become well defined enough to be both testable and buildable as a complete AGI. The paper I wrote with Harley, and the more recent one on consciousness, were just a couple of opening salvos in that effort. Richard Loosemore

Re: [agi] Professor Asim Roy Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
the additional disadvantage of being utterly filled with underlines and boldface. He shouts. Not good in something that is supposed to be a scientific paper. Sorry, but this is just junk. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
: should we use Emitter-Coupled Logic in the transistors that are in oour computers that will be running the algorithms. -| Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
last effort, but there is a limit to how many times I can say the same thing and be ignored every time. Richard Loosemore If one is talking about the sense of experience and mental associations a normal human mind associates with the color red, one is talking about a complex

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, Broad agreement, with one comment from the end of your posting... On 11/20/08, *Richard Loosemore* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another, closely related thing that they do is talk about low level issues witout realizing just how

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
of this fact because they do not know enough cognitive science. Richard Loosemore I don't think this is the reason. There are plenty of neuroscientists out there who know plenty of cognitive science. I think many neuroscientists just hold different theoretical presuppositions than you, for reasons other

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem is that if you interpret spike timing to be playing the role that you (and they) imply above, then you are commiting yourself to a whole raft of assumptions about how knowledge

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
Trent Waddington wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since such luminaries as Jerry Fodor have said much the same thing, I think I stand in fairly solid company. Wow, you said Fodor without being critical of his work. Is that legal? Trent

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
mechanisms in the brain. ENDQUOTE- Richard Loosemore On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vladimir Nesov wrote: Could you give some references to be specific in what you mean? Examples of what you consider outdated cognitive theory

Re: [agi] Hunting for a Brainy Computer

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
in the brain is incoherent No contest: it is valid there. But I am only referring to the cases where neuroscientists imply that what they are talking about are higher level concepts. This happens extremely frequently. Richard Loosemore --- agi

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
. Just because I used a prticular example of bottoming-out does not mean that I claimed this was the only way it could happen. And, of course, all those other claims of conscious experiences are widely agreed to be more dilute (less mysterious) than such things as qualia. Richard

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
try to say all of the above in the last post, but you didn't mention that bit in your reply ;-) Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
standard of explanation. I do that in part 2. So far we have not discussed the whole paper, only part 1. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
Richard Loosemore -Original Message- From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:57 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard, I

Re: [agi] Now hear this: Human qualia are generated in the human cranial CNS and no place else

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Loosemore
that, there is no single place you can cut off the percept with one single piece of intervention. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] My prospective plan to neutralize AGI and other dangerous technologies...

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Loosemore
how this would work: crazy people never tell lies, so you'd be able to nail 'em when they gave the wrong answers. 8-| Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Loosemore
Harry Chesley wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: Harry Chesley wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: I completed the first draft of a technical paper on consciousness the other day. It is intended for the AGI-09 conference, and it can be found at: http://susaro.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Three things. First, David Chalmers is considered one of the world's foremost researchers in the consciousness field (he is certainly now the most celebrated). He has read the argument presented in my paper, and he has

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
is not just an analogy, as I think you might begin to guess: there is a deep relationship between these two domains, and I am still working on a way to link them. Richard Loosemore. --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303

Zombies, Autism and Consciousness {WAS Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness]

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
I'll try to rephrase that in the edited version And I will also try to get the motivation and friendliness paper written asap, to complement this one. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
, does it meta-explain my subjective experiences if I know why I cannot explain these experiences? And thence to part two of the paper Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
falsifiable. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but is there anywhere else in the literature where you have you seen anyone make a prediction that the qualia will be changed by the alteration of a specific mechanism, but not by other, fairly similar alterations? Richard Loosemore

Dan Dennett [WAS Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness]

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
actually resolve it (albeit in a weird kind of way). Richard Loosemore --- 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

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
Matt Mahoney wrote: --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, let me phrase it like this: I specifically say (or rather I should have done... this is another thing I need to make more explicit!) that the predictions are about making alterations at EXACTLY

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
Harry Chesley wrote: On 11/14/2008 9:27 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote: I completed the first draft of a technical paper on consciousness the other day. It is intended for the AGI-09 conference, and it can be found at: http://susaro.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
Harry Chesley wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: I completed the first draft of a technical paper on consciousness the other day. It is intended for the AGI-09 conference, and it can be found at: http://susaro.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/draft_consciousness_rpwl.pdf One other point

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
. Richard Loosemore - Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:46 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness Harry Chesley wrote: On 11/14/2008 9:27

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
it up on the spot isn't an option.) On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking the position that consciousness is an epiphenomenon and is therefore meaningless has difficulties. Rather p-zombieness in atom-by-atom the same environment is an epiphenomenon

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
Colin Hales wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: Colin Hales wrote: Dear Richard, I have an issue with the 'falsifiable predictions' being used as evidence of your theory. The problem is that right or wrong...I have a working physical model for consciousness. Predictions 1-3 are something

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
This commentary represents a fundamental misunderstanding of both the paper I wrote and the background literature on the hard problem of consciousness. Richard Loosemore Ed Porter wrote: I respect the amount of thought that when into Richard’s paper “Consciousness in Human

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I completed the first draft of a technical paper on consciousness the other day. It is intended for the AGI-09 conference, and it can be found at: http://susaro.com/wp- content/uploads/2008/11/draft_consciousness_rpwl.pdf

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
Matt Mahoney wrote: --- On Sat, 11/15/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Mahoney wrote: --- On Sat, 11/15/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is equivalent to your prediction #2 where connecting the output of neurons that respond to the sound of a cello

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
not get this then it is almost impossible to discuss the topic. Matt just tried to explain it to you. You did not get it even then. Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
that is significantly different. Richard Loosemore --- 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=8660244id_secret

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
. See the Chalmers reference in my paper. Richard Loosemore --- 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

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
to any further messages from you because you are wasting my time. Richard Loosemore Ed Porter wrote: Richard, Thank you for your reply. It implies your article was not as clearly worded as I would have liked it to have been, given the interpretation you say it is limited to. When

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-15 Thread Richard Loosemore
. I am especially interested in the fact that there are some vague consciousness feelings we get: things that are kinda mysterious. Perhaps they are just these atoms that are one step removed from dead-end concept-atoms. Richard Loosemore On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Matt Mahoney

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-15 Thread Richard Loosemore
Matt Mahoney wrote: --- On Sat, 11/15/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is equivalent to your prediction #2 where connecting the output of neurons that respond to the sound of a cello to the input of neurons that respond to red would cause a cello to sound red. We should

[agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
cram in. Richard Loosemore --- 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=8660244id_secret=120640061-aded06

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
, thanks for your positive comments. Richard Loosemore --- 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

Re: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness

2008-11-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
issue that the geneal public cares about enormously. Richard Loosemore --- On Fri, 11/14/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [agi] A paper that actually does solve the problem of consciousness To: agi@v2.listbox.com Date: Friday

Re: [agi] Ethics of computer-based cognitive experimentation

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John LaMuth wrote: Reality check *** Consciousness is an emergent spectrum of subjectivity spanning 600 mill. years of evolution involving mega-trillions of competing organisms, probably selecting for obscure quantum

Re: [agi] Ethics of computer-based cognitive experimentation

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
Matt Mahoney wrote: --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Mahoney wrote: --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your 'belief' explanation is a cop-out because it does not address any of the issues that need to be addressed

Re: [agi] Ethics of computer-based cognitive experimentation

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
of consciousness. Richard Loosemore If you think it's about feelings/qualia then - no - you don't need that [potentially dangerous] crap + we don't know how to implement it anyway. If you view it as high-level built-in response mechanism (which is supported by feelings in our brain but can/should be done

Re: [agi] Ethics of computer-based cognitive experimentation

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
definitions, sure, it is true that the rules are not cut in stone for how to do it. It's just that consciousness is a rats nest of conflicting definitions Richard Loosemore --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https

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