=\ Okay, settle down kiddies, the professor is now in the hall.
First thing, if you haven't received an honorary cookie from me recently then you are a pinheaded twit and you will remain such until one of two things happen. 1. you grow (or make) a brain. 2. My life situation improves to the point where I don't feel quite so snipey all the time and have enough patience to put up with u numbskulls. =| Now, consciousness... Shockingly enough, Consciousness is a solved problem! The solution has emerged over the past few years and now there is actually science to back up the things I have been mumbling incoherently about on this list. You see, as we accelerate toward the singularity. (E(X) ~= 3 years now!!!) discoveries are coming thick and fast but might not be recognized for how revolutionary they actually are. Take: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=neural+predictive+coding&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=qgW6VLrTIbTLsATGrID4Dg&ved=0CCsQgQMwAA Basically that's it... I tried to explain it with a silly little sketch involving opamps back in september of 2012 but u all were busy playing with the pointy ends of your dunce caps to pay attention.... LISTEN UP, PPL! WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT!!! =( No more time for dicking around. The imagination is what drives perception. Having an imagination system linked to an active perceptual behaviors is equivalent to having a consciousness. Because of this, either you are helping me put together a cybernetic system and figuring out the details of how the brain can generate it's perceptions at the rate and resolution it does or you are fucking jerking off about qualia. Let me tell you one thing about qualia: It only has to be functionally equivalent and it's good enough. -- Seriously! You see, the urgent thing is to put together a system which works ** AT ALL **. Once that is done it will then be possible to neural interface into the thing and debug its qualia and fine tune shit, but before that can happen, it must be built first. I know talking about qualia and angels dancing on pinheads is fun and all but we got serious shit to do here, ppl. =| [ The tone of this e-mail was engineered to provoke the emotional response required to stimulate critical thinking, suck it up bitches...] -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- 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
