On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 5:48 AM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> Conscious systems are more efficient than non. Communication is enhanced. > Conscious agents can predict other similarly conscious agents behavior and > make decisions based on those predictions with confidence. > > Take two systems of ants, one natural and the other p zombie robots. Will > the emergent structure of the anthill be as efficient as with the p > zombies? There is a complex systems barrier. > So by consciousness you mean intelligence, as measured by prediction accuracy. This accounts for efficient communication because that depends on predicting what the recipient already knows and only transmitting the difference. Intelligence depends on knowledge and computing power. So now we can address insect consciousness by estimating their intelligence relative to humans. Human brains are a million times larger, so we can assume a million times more operations per second and storage capacity. Human knowledge is on the order of 10^9 bits, half inherited and half learned and stored in long term memory. Insects can't be trained and have less than 100 bits for stuff like bees remembering where they found pollen to tell the hive. Inherited knowledge is about 10-30 times greater. The human genome is 3 Gb. No mammal has less than 2 Gb. Insects range from 91 Mb to over 7 Gb. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21877225/ ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T51eb63417278f283-Md9d8bad4241408b69a6666d5 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
