AGI’ers’ cognitive synergy is totally dfifferent from that of the brain.
Cognitive synergy per Ben is *predefined*. If you use existing algos, you have predefined, narrow frames/networks of options – and you have no capacity for generating new options. The brain works on totally different principles. If you want a simple analogy think of how millions/billions of humans demonstrably solve problems everyday with the use of the world wide web. If you want to solve a problem – as you just did with your post – you go truly “searching” – perhaps we must use a better word like “questing” – on the net for options. You DO NOT KNOW in advance, like every algo, where to search for info. You continually find NEW sources of info/options to generate NEW solutions to problems. Neither algos nor cognitive synergistic suites of algos can do this – can explore. A web search is truly synergistic because it entails questing for and finding altogether NEW sources of info and new skills.. Solving creative problems in your head is essentially the same as solving them via the web – you’re just exploring the internal “worldwide web” inside yourhead. Again, you have no predefined sets or spaces of options for any creative, real world problem. Rather, you search through disordered, clusters of associations in your head – messy webs as opposed to ordered networks/spaces. These searches are adventures – explorations – the opposite of what algos do, which is really “checking” lists rather than true “searching” through jungles of information. So brain synergy – ad hoc patchworks of different clusters of information and skills – yes ; Ben’s cognitive synergy – pre hoc, prepatterned searches of predefined options and skills – no. From: Juan Carlos Kuri Pinto Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 5:32 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Kurzweil irrelevant Synergy is paramount for General AI! Paraphrasing Dr. Joaquín Fuster: "Intelligence is in the brain network. Trying to understand intelligence by studying neurotransmitters is like trying to understand written language by studying the chemical composition of the ink. It's simply not the right level of complexity. Language lies within the relationships between words." Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition http://www.amazon.com/Cortex-Mind-Unifying-Cognition-ebook/dp/B000VDK26I/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1367598110&sr=8-1&keywords=cortex+and+mind El alma está en la red del cerebro (The soul is within the brain network) http://www.rtve.es/television/20111111/alma-esta-red-del-cerebro/474693.shtml On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2011/06/why-is-evaluating-partial-progress.html >> >> You may not like this explanation, but that's your problem ;p > > Well, I don't like it either. Good -- that is a point of evidence in its favor ;) >There is no evidence for synergy as the > key to intelligence. There most certainly is. Ever read a textbook of cognitive neuroscience? >All of the evidence is in the other direction. You mean there is lots of evidence that narrow AI programs do not manifest significant internal synergies .... Yeah... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23601136-98835e3f Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com 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-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
