> I understand, but I don't agree that having many bodies lends itself to > lesser degrees of egoism and the inherent dangers therein. In > fact, it may > be argued that the AGI will view its pervasive presence as even further > indication of its superiority to us and create even worse behavior. Only > strong identification with non-self entities, or lacking of > strong sense of > distinctive self, can help ensure altrusistic behavior
My hypothesis is that a distributed rather than localized physical presence, will tend to lead to a less egoistic psychology. I do not have a rigorous proof of this, just an intuition, which I'll try to back up with more substance in a later e-mail... In brief, with a distributed embodiment, the system is intimately bound up with more different parts of the world. It has parts that are similar to many many different things. This will cause it to have a much more broadly distributed "intuitive empathy" than we humans naturally have. > Perhaps..but should it become "conscious" in the sense that humans are, it > would follow the definitions that have been set down(in my belief > system its > according to eastern thoughts where consciousness is viewed as > having levels > starting from the sense consciousness' and becoming more subtle > down to the > store consciousness). But while its pre-sentient it may display some > unknown type of apparent pyschological behavior. This is all IMO... Well, the insights of the Eastern wisdom traditions are very deep, but they are ultimately based on human conscious experience. I am not sure they're so applicable to ALL forms of conscious experiences... -- Ben Goertzel ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
