Ben, that's an interesting concept. From my reading of Buddhism is also seems like non-attachment in meditation is also often linked with metta practice, or compassion meditation to state it in a simplified way. Have you looked at any of the neuroscience papers on that practice? In the simple example you supply of "Bob" detaching from his girlfriend the practice would be not just "letting go of the suffering of the break-up" but also adding a compassion practice for ex-girlfriend, in this way the Buddhist practice would be developing non-attachment in conjunction with compassion for the individual and their choice. In this way an individual avoids just falling into the trap of avoiding suffering and so getting caught by it even more. Side note: as someone having been in a number of break-ups I've found it works better than just trying to detach, haha...
I bring it up because I wonder if the concept could be informative for the goal of creating a Friendly AI? In this way OpenCog's system of balancing attachment and experience could also be linked with broader compassion. Possibly in the implication links, while disassociating happiness with "put_arm_around_girlfriend" and adding an implication that happiness for girlfriend includes separation from Bob. That possibly hints at way of formulating ethics for A.I. -Chris ________________________________ From: Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> To: AGI <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:24 AM Subject: [agi] Toward enlightened AGIs For your general amusement, here is a blog post I rote on "The dynamics of attachment and non-attachment in human and AGI minds": http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2013/05/the-dynamics-of-attachment-and-non.html :) ben -- 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/303/20347893-f72b365c Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
