> -----Original Message----- > > The idea that we have a physical brain and a non-physical soul or > consciousness perceiving and doing exactly the same things in lockstep is > called dualism. Has anyone ever disproved dualism? >
I don't think anyone here is being dualist here unless speculation about say a quantum soul falls into the category of non-physical... http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/documents/qsoulchap.pdf An entity that would get uploaded, what would you call that? Some sort of posthuman image? People get all fidgety when they hear the term "soul" :) > Does any of this matter for AGI design? You build a computer that duplicates > everything the brain does. It passes the Turing test. You put it in a robot > and > to everyone it looks and behaves just like a human. Is it conscious? How are > you going to answer that? You can't even say what the question means. > AGI is more than just copying people. It'll come in many forms of super-intelligence. It'll bring many forms of consciousness that which we may understand less of than our own. You can't just handwave it away by willfully pretending it doesn't exist... P-consciousness might be an amplifier of intelligence during evolution as it exists in multi-agent intelligences communications enhancing a societies communication complexity characteristics (see Yao). It's related to the coupling of communication and intelligence in species survival IMO. John ------------------------------------------- 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
