Not to demote Ben to laughing stock, but certainly the silliness of becoming an expert on consciousness by syncretizing academic theories on consciousness is right up there with the ridiculousness of AIXI, mathematical theories of life, God etc.
Anyway, I don't have anything better to offer, except a reminder that we can hardly measure consciousness in the organisms we are familiar with, and, if at some point we can "prove" that life is different from intelligence and intelligence is different from consciousness (all of which I highly doubt), then it will most likely be like jazz: if it needs to be explained to you, you will most likely never get it. I should close with my standard disclaimer that, in the infinite set of (artificial) intellects there is a tiny, negligible and probably undetectable subset of human-like intellects, so the practicability of Ben's ruminations --> 0 - sorry again Ben! AT ------------------------------------------- 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
