Matt's response - like an adolescent's flip remark - is evidence of the kind of denial that I mentioned. Jim Bromer
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:49 AM Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wrote a simple reinforcement learner which includes the line of code: > > printf("Ouch!\n"); > > So I don't see communication of qualia as a major obstacle to AGI. > > Or do you mean something else by qualia? > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 5:21 AM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> >> > >> > I was applying John's definition of qualia, not agreeing with it. My >> > definition is >> > qualia is what perception feels like. Perception and feelings are both >> > computable. But the feelings condition you to believing there is something >> > magical and mysterious about it. >> > >> >> And what I'm saying is that the communication of qualia is important for >> general intelligence in a system of agents. And how do agents interpret the >> signals, process and recommunicate them. >> >> But without fully understanding qualia since they're intimately intrinsic to >> agent experience we can still explore their properties by answering >> questions such as: What is an expression of the information distance between >> qualia of differing agents with same stimuli? How do qualia map to modeled >> environment? How do they change over time in a system of learning agents? >> What is the compressional loss into communication? And how do multi-agent >> models change over time from communicated and decompressed qualia. >> >> And what is the topology of qualia variance within an agent related to the >> complexity classes of environmental strategy? >> >> And move on to questions such as can there be enhancements to agent language >> to accelerate learning in a simulated system? And enhancements to agent >> structure? >> >> John >> > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T9c94dabb0436859d-Me45b62798fa4720a94d77ee2 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
