On 6/3/07, Jiri Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Further, prove that pain (or more preferably sensation in general) isn't an
emergent property of sufficient complexity.
Talking about Neumann's architecture - I don't see how could increases
in complexity of rules used for switching Boolean values lead to new
sensations. It can represent a lot in a way that can be very
meaningful to us in terms of feelings, but from the system's
perspective it's nothing more than a bunch of 1s and 0s.
In a similar vein I could argue that humans don't feel anything
because they are simple made of (sub)atomic particles. Why should we
believe that matter can "feel"?
It's all about the pattern, not the substrate. And if a feeling AGI
requires quantum mechanics (I don't believe it does) then maybe we'll
just need to wait for quantum computing.
J
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