Yes. Put that more simply, the conscious mind supervises creative thinking - that which “we don’t know how to do” pace Piaget, and wh. is non-algorithmic, - and the unconscious mind is in charge of routine, (basically rational), algorithmic thinking, which we do already know how to do. And that’s the essential architecture of a mildly evolved AGI or lower organism – and a neat, fairly obvious division of labour.
From: Micah Blumberg Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 11:40 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Kurzweil's new book Hawkins Memory-Prediction may be a key component of future AGI, but it isn't conscious, and its not meant to be, he is building it for a narrow the application of predicting live streaming big data, to make highly accurate predictions about when to heat a building on a campus, and when to cool it, to save money. That isn't AGI, it has a much more narrow focus. If you shut down the old brain, and just have a neo cortex, your neocortex alone will not be conscious. That's why Hawkins work isn't AGI On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Tim Tyler wrote: On 30/11/2012 19:52, Piaget Modeler wrote: Hawkins has a very narrow focus, he isn't building AGI, he's building software that makes predictions, its totally different from making an artificial mind. Not so much. If we knew what the consequences of our actions would be, it would help a *lot* with choosing between them. Think of chess, for instance. If you knew the likely consequences of your possible moves, you would be done. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]'); Remove lock to reply. AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- ~~ Warmly, Micah 7 1 4 ) 6 9 9 - 4 2 1 3 (voicemail and texting same digits) AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
