On Saturday 05 May 2007 23:28, YKY (Yan King Yin) wrote: > 2. Consciousness is not central to AGI unless you want to make it > "sentient", by which I mean having its own emotions.
From Wikipedia: *Sentience* refers to possession of sensory organs, the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. The possession of sapience is not a necessity. The word *sentient* is often confused with the word *sapient* ... The word that means having or having to do with emotion is "affective". I think the discussion here could avoid a lot of misunderstandings if people would simply use words dealing with mental and physiological phenomena with their well-established, dictionary meanings. If there is some hitherto undescribed phenomenon you need to refer to frequently, fine, make up a whole new word. But you'll find that there are already words out there for most of the stuff that gets talked about here. Josh ----- 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
