Whoa... that's a kinda surreal perspective!!! The unconscious is rational and algorithmic?? That would be a big surprise to the psychiatry community ;O ;D ...
Mike T, thanks for being baffling and silly in a different way than your usual; that brightened up a foggy, rainy Hong Kong morning for me ;) ben On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, December 01, 2012 11:40 PM > *To:* AGI <[email protected]> > *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 <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23601407-ccf7ca1d> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > -- > > ~~ > Warmly, > > > Micah > 7 1 4 ) 6 9 9 - 4 2 1 3 (voicemail and texting same digits) > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/6952829-59a2eca5> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- 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
