I think 'consciousness' might be the word you were thinking of, but I am not sure about that because you seem to be referring to a more sophisticated kind of consciousness that represents the ability to increasingly attain greater wisdom about the environment. Maybe you should have said something like, "Intelligence strives for adaptability." (Using the word 'conscience' to refer to something more like intelligence or consciousness is obsolete in the English language. I do recall seeing it used that way in an olde book.)
I think that the problem developing better AGI programs is not that we lack good ideas but that it is just much too difficult a problem. If we had a good initial model we could just keep improving on it incrementally and over time we might end up with something pretty interesting. But a simple initial model seems to be elusive because the foundations of intelligence is an aggregate which seems to demand different kinds of structures to build on. Some of the foundation needs to be extremely precise and some of the foundation can't be too precise, and so on. Jim Bromer On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Felipe Carmona Miquilini < [email protected]> wrote: > 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> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-653794b5> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > 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
