On 10/06/06, sanjay padmane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I feel you should discontinue the list. That will force people to post there.
I'm not using the forum only because no one else is using it (or very
few), and everyone is perhaps doing the same.
I also wouldn't be interested in using the forum.
Another advantage is that it will expose the discussions to google and
it will draw more people with increasing content.
If we want to increase content and get more people interested I think
the best thing to devote our time and effort to is a wiki rather than
a forum. Threads have little chance of staying on topic and finding
things in them as they meander around becomes nightmarish.
As we can't present a definitive answer to what is intelligence the
best we can do is try and classify the various possible answers to
questions around intelligence so that people can see the different
views and the projects/people that are working/thinking in that
direction.
A bit like this
http://www.macrovu.com/CCTGeneralInfo.html
But in wiki form and not so focused on the ambiguous term "think".
I expect we will get a variety of different classifications of
approaches, from the logic based strong self-improvers to those that
fastidiously copy the current knowledge of a human brain.
People can then find the projects/people they are interested in and
read their back postings on this list.
An example of one topic would be "How important is parallelism to Intelligence"
Potential answers are things like
1) Unimportant, the church-turing thesis shows that any parallel
process can be emulated by serial processes
2) The human brain is vastly parallel we need to copy this to properly
understand it
3) Parallel processes are needed so that seperate competing programs
can not interfere with the other programs processing, this can be
emulated in a serial process but this loses a lot of speed and the
ability to optimise for energy concerns.
4) Parallel processes are simply more efficient for the vast
processing needed to be done for visual processing and similar.
Thoughts/suggestions?
Will Pearson
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