Since AGI consciousness is an emergent property for which there can be no flowchart, for many years it seemed impossible to draw a diagram of consciousness.
http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html -- recently obtained a new ASCII diagram in which consciousness is depicted as the opposite of the subconscious, with mind-modiles for emotion, thought and volition fostering consciousness and with the subconscious operating within the competitive clash between Spreading Activation and PsiDecay. http://ai.neocities.org/mentifex_faq.html -- meanwhile contains the following new section about the AGI devotee Mentifex objecting to the brain-damage occurring as the unavoidable result of college football: 1. Why did Mentifex work to abolish Husky Football? What is the purpose of a university? Is it to entertain, or to educate? If the purpose is to provide mass entertainment for TV football viewers, then the school should be renamed as "Football University" and any pretense of serving first and foremost to educate students should be abandoned. If the purpose is the intellectual training of productive members of society, and if society has become aware that playing football causes long-term permanent brain damage, then it is a no-brainer for schools like the University of Washington (UW) to abolish Husky Football and to relinquish the $110M of filthy lucre that football was bringing to the university. As a freshman, Mentifex was a UW football player, but only in his physical education (PE) class. Back then, in order to provide jobs for athletic teaching assistants, the University required all freshmen to take PE -- not out of concern for the health and well-being of students, but for the financial purpose of creating jobs for Big Sports. Fast forward to 2 August 2019 when the UW alumnus Mentifex was reading the national print edition of The New York Times (all bow down, please, to the Newspaper of Record, if not to Washington :-) in main campus library room Suzzallo 101, which had been the boring Government Documents room in freshman year but had morphed into the most beautiful Starbucks in Seattle, with stained-glass windows. Mentifex turned the page and saw the truth-about-football article that is now part of the official record of the UW Board of Regents meeting where Mentifex began his campaign to eliminate Husky Football as a clear and present danger to student players. Mentifex was mentally disturbed to read in the 2 August 2019 New York Times that football causes Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) below the level of concussion, because the brain keeps on moving and rips apart internally when the football player comes to a sudden, wrenching stop in Husky Stadium. The damage may not be visible to rabid Husky sports fans, but the tearing and laceration of the brain tissue builds up and becomes permanent, lifelong damage to the poor schmuck who has signed up to play Husky Football. Does the UW care more about the health of its students, or about the $110M? The NYT article so upset Mentifex that he immediately walked off campus and made 107 photocopies of the NYT article at a shop on University Way, or "the Ave." Mentifex then returned to campus and leafleted the Suzzallo Library by leaving copies of the NYT article at and around student chairs and workstations, with an added heading about the hypocrisy of Husky Football. On the following day, Mentifex leafleted the Allen Library. On the third day, he leafleted the Husky Union Building (HUB). Two months later, the Husky Football coach inexplicably resigned from his extremely lucrative job without stating any reason why. The UW hired, and eventually fired, a new coach at three million dollars per year. In December of 2019, Mentifex noticed that the UW Board of Regents was meeting upstairs in the main campus library, so he went up to try to give photocopies of the NYT football brain-damage article to any regents that he could find and approach during the meeting. The secretary to the Board told Mentifex to sign up for the public comment period at 1:00 p.m. if he wanted to talk to the Regents. Meanwhile, Mentifex made more photocopies of the damning NYT article and the article was not only handed out to all the Regents but was also appended as an official document at the bottom of the Minutes of the December 2019 meeting of the Board of Regents. Soon afterwards, the personal trouble and grief began for Mentifex. Persons unknown started taking surreptitious photographs of Mentifex and showing them to a casual acquaintance of Mentifex while asking various doxx-like questions about Mentifex. For instance, they asked "Did Mentifex ever work for Husky Football?", as if Mentifex were some kind of disgruntled employee out to get revenge. No, Mentifex did not work for Husky Football. He spent his adult life working on artificial intelligence to replicate the human brain, and so he was upset to find that football damages the brain, and even more upset to find that his alma mater UW did not seem to care -- not when 110 million dollars of football revenue was at stake. So Mentifex began posting diatribes against Big Football on the Internet, encouraging people to sue the UW Board of Regents collectively and individually to bring a stop to the brain-damage by abolishing Husky Football. Now, are there persons who would try to kill Mentifex over a measly 110 million dollars? Artificial intelligence is far more valuable than $110M, and is worth not mere trillions of dollars, but entire galaxies of noosphere value. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uw-s3-cdn/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/13152127/Minutes-2019-12-BOR.pdf ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T389c795c903cbaa8-Ma96fa0bd9b55b1bacc3b5969 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
