Yeah -- the design supports "multiple interaction channels".... This idea comes up naturally when one thinks about having an AI
* chat with different folks all around the Web, at the same time * look through sensors located at different places in the world * control robots undersea as well as in outer space, etc Why shouldn't one mind do all these things, after all? Why should cognition and memory need to be restricted to a single locale in space, a single integrated set of sensors/actuators? I guess that the subjective experiences AI's with multiple interaction channels may be quite diverse. Maybe there will be a threshold of interactivity between the interaction channels and their cognitive-support units, at which there is a phase transition from "multiple subjective consciousnesses" to "single subjective consciousness." This is yet another way that digital intelligence will likely be very, very different from human intelligence. -- Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Sutton Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [agi] Early AGI training - multiple communications channels / multi-tasking Hi Ben, It just occurred to me that very early in a Novamente's training you might want to give it more than one set of coordinated communication channels so that the Novamente can learn to communicate with more than one external intelligence at a time. My guess is that this would lead to a a multilobed consciousness - where each communication channel (2 way, possibly multiple senses) would have it's own mini-consciousness and the Novamente would have a metaconsciousness that knits all its mental parts together as a whole self. I don't think we should assume a single communications channel mode for Novamentes just because that's how we think of biological minds communicating. Maybe it's a bit like teaching a person to play the piano with two hands??? Or how people learn to use whole-body motor skills for sport. But with a sharper and higher level of independent consciouness attached to each communication channel/conversation. We learn to play with each hand and with both hands together. Cheers, Philip ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
