Yep.
To inject or extend their p-consciousness into a computer software system… hmm.. what would that feel like? If consciousness proves to be quantum mechanical potentially an AGI experience would be a quantum teleportation into a medium where a similar computation could be controlled using nanomaterials like graphene and fullerene. Also they might be convinced by experiencing another person’s consciousness. As technology inches closer to such capabilities (see recent mind sending of emails): http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105225 Or biophysically wire their consciousness into another’s, instead wireless. Or even them experiencing a reflection/duplicate of their own. John From: Ben Goertzel via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] If you had an AGI with a cognitive architecture somewhat human-like, it would be interesting to take a human brain and "re-route" parts of the human brain's processing away from selected brain components to corresponding components of the AGI For instance, what if you rewired someone's brain to bypass their hippocampus, and route to some AGI's "hippocampus analogue"..... What would it feel like? By gathering a bunch of subjective reports of this nature, and correlating these subjective reports with the particulars of the rewiring undertaken in each instance, one could gather a corpus of data that would let one move toward formulating a theory spanning the subjective and objective aspects of consciousness... In this case, the way to convince a skeptic (someone saying "the AGI's not really conscious" or whatever) would be not just to show them some data or verbal reports, but to invite them to temporarily connect **their own brain** to the apparatus. Then they would feel what it's like to be part-AGI for themselves. This, if it really did feel like something (if you could subjectively sense the AGI-aspect inside "your mind"), would convince 99% of skeptics... Anyway I think this kind of direction is how the "hard problem of consciousness", as well as the issues regarding machine consciousness, is going to be "solved" eventually. This approach won't answer every question we're currently interested in, just as modern physics doesn't tell us how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (as medieval philosophers wondered), but it will guide us regarding what are the right questions to ask, and enable us to build a new sort of understanding obsoleting our current concepts of objectivity and subjectivity... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- 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
