https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/science/plants-consciousness-anesthesia.html?module=Promotron®ion=Body&action=click&pgtype=article Jim Bromer On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:01 PM Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Conscious experience - the soul or whatever it is - is not relevant to > contemporary computer science. I do not agree with the dismissal of > that feeling of experience either. As I told Marvin Minsky I do agree > that whatever conscious experience is it probably has the potential to > be explained by science one day, but right now it is a mystery. > > There are some complications of the experience of our existence, and > those complications may be explained by the complex processes of mind. > Since we can think we can think about the experience of life and > interweave the strands of the experience of our existence. But that > does not mean that the essential experience can be explained by > complicated thinking or some other dismissive denial. The processes of > higher intelligence may shed light on the complexity problem but the > experience of consciousness is irrelevant to AI because it is not > strictly a computational thing. It cannot be reduced by our theories > of mind or life which are currently available and which are certainly > not part of computer science. > Jim Bromer > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, September 13, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Jim Bromer wrote: > > > > I don't even think that stuff is relevant. > > > > > > Jim, > > > > It's relevant if consciousness is the secret sauce. and if it applies to > > the complexity problem. > > > > Would a non-conscious entity have a reason to develop AGI? > > > > John > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants > > + delivery options Permalink
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