I don't concur, but it is an interesting placement of the minimum for (machine) 'consciousness'. I did not realize that 'stateless' 'pure functions' could be called 'feed forward'. If global effects were sufficient to induce 'consciousness' then any program with global effects could be called conscious. Even assuming that you were being more specific than that I still don't think structures that can carry states between calls (in the ways that you were thinking) would be sufficient for conscious behaviors to emerge..
Jim Bromer On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Logan Streondj <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been promoting Integrated Information Theory for a while but I > finally sat down and read the whole thing yesterday. > > Explicitly it mentions that feed forward neuronets are 'zombies' or > unconscious while recurrent neuronets are conscious due to the feedback > loops. > > So now I'm wondering which classical programming structures are 'zombies' > and which are conscious. > > It would seem by analogy that stateless or pure functions are zombies > since they simply feed forward. > > Wheras structures that carry state between calls such as objects and > actors are conscious. > > Do you concur? > > > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain. > my fingerprint is bd7e 6e2a e625 6d47 f7ed 30ec > 86d8 fc7c fad7 2729 > *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
