I've improved my own mental modules about conscience and intelligence, and I would like to share them with you, maybe you could help me, giving me even more perspectives, so here we go! Following are 4 things which I have been thinking for a while:
1 - Conscience strives for adaptability. The most its state is coherent with the environment, the better its owner will survive. 2 - What every thought has in common is the purpose to improve the representation of a given domain from the conscience state cited above - Our thoughts make it by accessing, changing and creating new models/abstractions. It is useful to think about domains because our conscience can divide the challenge of representing the environment, using chunks that make sense for its adaptability. 3 - In this scenario, intelligence is how well the conscience is adapted to the environment, e.g. it makes sense to say that the dogs are less intelligent than us, because our conscience are better adapted than theirs in the environment the person who are saying it are (maybe a hectic human city). 4 - Changing the environment is a way to adapt. Changing the environment for better adaptability can be considered a high level of consciousness, because its models are so "sharp" that can be used to anticipate the environment, and change it. We do it with medicine, engineering, while talking, etc... Now a conclusion, which I would like you to put more ideas related to it. The key aspect is the World If we think about the conscience as a mechanism which strives for adaptability, then think about it: Physicists and Mathematicians have generally better abstract models in the means of understanding the nature. Their thoughts tend to be more accurate and based on logic and empiric facts concerning the nature. So, we could suggest that Mathematicians are by definition more conscious than Layers, Actors, etc... Which is not necessarily true, because a Business man, can be considered more important or more aware about its business than a mathematician, or anyone else, for instance... This implies that the world is more relevant than the "conscious entity" itself. What I mean is, creating a great model about the world an "Artificial Conscience" would act at is the right answer to achieve real AGI... and it makes the problem much easier to deal with... A simple ERP system, for instance, can be considered an extension of a sharp conscience - which begins in a banal user - while this very ERP system is stupid as a rock when the subject is girls, for instance... The G from AGI is what really concern us. What is General? We have to define General mathematically to beautifully solve the problem. -- Felipe Carmona Miquilini ------------------------------------------- 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
