The moment you take Bostrom's virtual reality theory and replace
"computer simulation" with "evolutionary virtual reality" "God" becomes
a logical necessity.
Once you accept consciousness/awareness as valid sensory input and a way
to gather empirical evidence in the context of the scientific method
"God" becomes real.
Not "God" as an old man but "God" as a self enhancing evolutionary
process working on consciousness evolution ... creating time/causality
driven virtual environments (one of them is our universe) as training
environments for consciousness. Just like Ben is using Unity3D as a
training environment for AGI ...
Maybe your AGI system will tell you just that and you will shut it down
for being unscientific ... ;-)
On 22.01.2015 18:48, Piaget Modeler via AGI wrote:
For an AGI system, would "God" be an efficient placeholder for the
"unknown cause" of an event or situation?
It seems that this is what some people do when faced with inexplicable
situations that their mental model is
not sufficient to generate an otherwise plausible hypothesis? And
would this be a slippery slope?
On the other hand, police detectives, when investigating a murder seem
to have some model of human action
and causes of death. I don't think they put "God" as a placeholder
for the cause of a death in a particular case.
When teaching an AGI, will the world we explain to the AGI be full of
unknowns or knowns?
Thoughts?
~PM
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