On 5/1/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well, this tells you something interesting about the human cognitive
architecture, but not too much about intelligence in general...
How do you know that it doesn't tell you much about intelligence in
general? That was an incredibly dismissive statement. Can you justify it?
Well I tried to in the essay that I pointed to in my response.
My point, in that essay, is that the nature of human emotions is rooted in
the human brain architecture, according to which our systemic physiological
responses to cognitive phenomena ("emotions") are rooted in primitive parts
of the brain that we don't have much conscious introspection into. So, we
actually can't reason about the intermediate conclusions that go into our
emotional reactions very easily, because the "conscious, reasoning" parts of
our brains don't have the ability to look into the intermediate results
stored and manipulated within the more primitive "emotionally reacting"
parts of the brain. So our deliberative consciousness has choice of either
-- accepting not-very-thoroughly-analyzable outputs from the emotional parts
of the brain
or
-- rejecting them
and doesn't have the choice to focus deliberative attention on the
intermediate steps used by the emotional brain to arrive at its conclusions.
Of course, through years of practice one can learn to bring more and more of
the emotional brain's operations into the scope of conscious deliberation,
but one can never do this completely due to the structure of the human
brain.
On the other hand, an AI need not have the same restrictions. An AI should
be able to introspect into the intermediary conclusions and manipulations
used to arrive at its "feeling responses". Yes there are restrictions on
the amount of introspection possible, imposed by computational resource
limitations; but this is different than the blatant and severe architectural
restrictions imposed by the design of the human brain.
Because of the difference mentioned in the prior paragraph, the rigid
distinction between emotion and reason that exists in the human brain will
not exist in a well-design AI.
Sorry for not giving references regarding my analysis of the human
cognitive/neural system -- I have read them but don't have the reference
list at hand. Some (but not a thorough list) are given in the article I
referenced before.
-- Ben G
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