On 30/04/07, Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
graphics, image, redrawn, visualizations - all indicative of a high degree of visual-spatial thinking. I'm curious, are your own AGI efforts are modelled on this mode of thought? I ask because I wonder if the machine intelligence we build will "envision" concepts in an analogous way to our own processes.
Visual imagery - the capacity to carry out visual mental transformations - is a big aspect of what we do as humans, and there's a lot of neural apparatus devoted to it. In its most basic form this allows us to visually imagine objects, or ourselves or other people in various situations. However, in a broad sense thinking is more of a multi-modal process involving the entangling together of a rattle-bag of information from various sensory modalities into a single conscious percept. I think this is why philosophers are forever complaining that computers will never appreciate "the blueness of blue", because for a human the concept of "blueness" may include seemingly unrelated sensory data or other miscellaneous concepts having little to do with the specific wavelength of light hitting the retina. It seems very likely to me that the processes involved with interpreting visual information may also be hijacked and put to other nefarious purposes, which have little to do with the purposes for which they originally evolved. The processes used to transform visual scenes could also be applied to more abstract concepts, and in my estimation this is what artists, mathematicians, scientists, writers and other creative thinkers do all the time. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
