What do those mental knots really look like?
My first thoughts are dynamical systems knots, an interplay between knot theory and systems dynamics. Perhaps there are ways to categorize the ones humans encounter so they can be avoided in AGI. Who knows how many there are and how varied. The tormenting of others might be a pattern some follow in an attempt to utilize other agents besides themselves to untangle. To avoid those patterns, to suppress them, might be mere pattern detection on particular knot categories, branching to alternatives while maintaining systems control. Sounds too simple though, some of those "knots" may represent some of the finest and desirable qualities of human beings individually and collectively. Perhaps that includes somehow reaching a general intelligence evolutionarily. Torment and intelligence might hand in hand. Some of our most intelligent specimens have the most twisted, devious and devilish minds. John From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2016 11:30 PM To: AGI <[email protected]> Subject: [agi] "The torTuring test" -- -- if an AGI can torment itself and others psychologically just like humans can, it must have human-like intelligence (?) ;) -- 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 | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/248029-82d9122f> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- 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
