Matt, as I have explained before, YOU are a non-conscious robot whom I programmed as a college project back in 1983... that's why you don't recognize your own consciousness, you don't have any. But the rest of us do!
I apologize for the bugs which cause you to make such repetitive online posts, I was a beginner programmer then ;/ On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Alan Grimes via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why do you keep getting in my face about it? Why is this the idea that I >> must accept or eternally be confronted about? Why is it not acceptable >> that I believe in the existence of my own conscious experience and >> choose to reaffirm my perception of it whether you think it is illusory >> or not? > > I don't expect anyone to not believe in their own conscious > experience. Our brains aren't programmed to be able to do that. > > It is an unfortunate distraction when trying to design AGI. According > to Wolpert's theorem, no computer can model itself. That includes the > brain. So it should not be surprising that we find some aspects of our > mental processes mysterious. > > But I hope we have figured out that the goal is to reproduce human > behavior, and not worry about whether the resulting machine is > "conscious" or "sentient". If done right, it will appear to be. But > that's all we can say. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- 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
