> From: Jey Kottalam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Why would an AI need to talk to itself or 'sleep'? What function does > it serve? It's hard to understand your question without knowing the > assumptions behind your question. >
I think sleep, hibernation and other types of dormancies are biological functions related to various cycles occurring in nature such as day/night, seasonal, resource competition and availability, etc.. Informational processing within a brain that occurs during these dormancies may be there due to convenience, optimizations or reconfigurations. A computer running software should be able to not need sleep as multiple copies of memory can be managed and there would be multiple threads and processes running. But the OS on my computer has a sleep state and this is for running in a reduced power consumption mode so maybe AGI sleep would be necessary for this and maybe an AGI symbiotic to humans could sleep at night perhaps in reduced power mode... not sure if other reasons for sleep exist. Also maybe a sleep mode would exist for an AGI going into say a persist state before it is written to permanent storage; there are a number of ways of doing that. John ----- 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&id_secret=28361081-3d68dd
