@Robert
Taking dementia as a single problem, there can be a myriad of theories that can describe its function. Taken in the context of a system that can also simulate many other human mental conditions you start to limit the possibilities, which is the point of the exercise. The destination is unknown; you have to feel your way. I’m not building a human consciousness, we have plenty of them and there easy to make. I'm building a scalable intelligence, based on the mechanisms that allow humans to do what we do. And to do that I need to consider and simulate anything and everything, all the information is useful for cross referencing and gaining insights. I’m currently a self-employed software engineer; my vocational career has included vehicle mechanic, teaching/ lecturing, precision engineer, electronics/ design engineer, corporate software designer/ programmer, I think you get the gist. Everyone has a skill set and a ‘mind type’, I tend to fall onto the practical side of the spectrum. Hence I always approach a problem space from this point of view; I see the brain as a complex deterministic bio electrochemical machine and nothing more, cause and effect. There is no special magic, soul or other paranormal forces at work, it’s not derived from quantum effects and rocks aren't conscious, and neither is the universe. @Jim I’m sure your speculations as to what the Wright brothers were thinking are on par, though the relevance of my reference seems to have gone a miss. Perhaps I should have used the term ‘mind-set’ rather than methodology, apologies, my bad. @Alan >How much hardware do you need? I wish it was a matter of throwing computing resources at the problem to expedite progress. I’m currently running a 12 x 4 core PC cluster which is sufficient at the moment. My one saving grace regarding computing power has been that the GTP complexity is roughly linearly proportional to the maturity/ experience of the connectome, so the older it gets the slower it gets (in simulation). The generality of how the knowledge is stored also helps to a degree; many diverse concepts can be learned using the same knowledge facets, just recombined. And just for the record, although I didn’t think it would be a necessary thing to state, when I mention consciousness or self-awareness I’m not referring to the human level phenomena, I’m referring to the mechanisms/ phenomena within my model that I construe as the equivalent phenomena. The key point is I’m not building a human mind… it’s a machine/ alien equivalent, a scalable improvement leveraging what I believe to be the essence/ seat of our intelligence. :) ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T87761d322a3126b1-M46f6549919a9d6cde4412d41 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
