On Friday, November 07, 2025, at 3:09 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > But AI could claim convincingly to be human, and therefore conscious, if we > instructed it to do so. That's what passing the Turing test means. There is > nothing mysterious about consciousness. It is what thinking feels like, a > steady stream of mostly positive reinforcement that motivates you to not let > it end by dying. You have the illusion of consciousness because it results in > more offspring.
I find it interesting that some consciousness researchers lately have indicated that language potentially is some sort of virus. Not referring to William S. Burroughs though he did write on that. I had thought that language in some ways reduces human intelligence though it makes it communicable and storable. Advanced intelligences might communicate more with semiotics, like people sending memes on X, verses strictly limited text. An internet meme bypasses a persons text processor to the feelings more directly though they do contain some text but transmit concepts and are not bound by the usual constraints. With text you’re using discrete symbol systems to describe continuous and probabilistic verses having those in the symbol system itself. Machine to human telepathy to be efficient might bypass textual encoding and write information directly into conscious perception. That might be why for example transmitting word colors often fail since everyone’s colors are not the same and everyone’s concepts of things aren’t the same and have to be supplanted by so many definitions and descriptions which still are errorfull. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7ff992c51cca9e36-M35abfad086374eb7a031021c Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
