There was a previous discussion on this topic: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05028.html
Pei On 8/3/07, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/?&; > ----- 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=28366139-15647f
