--- "Dr. Matthias Heger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The interesting question is how we learn the basic nouns like "ball" > or "cat", i.e. abstract concepts for objects of our environment. > How do we create the basic patterns?
A child sees a ball, hears the word "ball", and associates them by Hebb's rule. > Sometimes I wonder whether we must explain the phenomenon of qualia > to be > able to create AGI. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/ No. Qualia is not needed for learning because there is no physical difference between an agent with qualia and one without. Chalmers questioned its existence, see http://consc.net/papers/qualia.html It is disturbing to think that qualia does not exist, but that is just the way your brain is programmed. You cannot change the belief that there is a "you" inside your head that experiences the outside world through your perceptual filters and makes high level decisions. But you only have this belief because it was selected by evolution. An intelligent, goal seeking agent must choose between short term reward and risky experiments that lead to greater knowledge and possibly greater long term reward. When the agent experiments, it behaves as if it had free will, even though it follows a deterministic algorithm. The agent cannot know its own algorithm because it does not have enough memory to simulate itself. On introspection, something random or mysterious must have made the choice. Humans credit this to free will, like when you choose to climb a mountain instead of stay home and watch TV. > What are the basic axioms of our mind? In fact these are the qualia > phenomena. Everything we know is build from qualia! > Lets take something very abstract: Mathematics. Yes, even mathematics > with its axioms is build from qualia. All knowledge is grounded in sensory experience. Mathematics is not absolute truth. It is a system invented by humans for reasoning about truth. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
