On Wed, Nov 6, 2019, 8:24 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
Has anyone pulled a Shane Legg on "consciousness"? > > https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3639 > Here are a few possible definitions of consciousness. 1. The mental state of wakefulness. The opposite of unconscious. 2. Qualia. What thinking feels like. 3. The property of agents that makes it unethical to harm them. 4. The immortal soul that goes to heaven after death. 5. The homunculus, or little person inside your head. Legg's 70 definitions of intelligence had the purpose of proposing a mathematically rigorous definition for which theorems could be proved but also one consistent with existing definitions. He defined it as the expected reward over a universal (Solomonoff) distribution of environments. This enabled Hutter to prove that there is no universal algorithm for intelligence. I don't think there is any point in defining consciousness rigorously. Tononi tried to do this (integrated information), but the resulting conclusions were nonsense, as one would expect when starting with a false or inconsistent premise. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T252d8aea50d6d8f9-M652c06e385fcd6980ffbed4e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
