> From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Just a quick thought not fully formulated. My model is in fact helpful > here. > Consciousness is an iworld-movie - a self watching and directing a movie > of > the world. How do you know if an agent is conscious - if it directs its > movie - if it tracks an object moving through its environment, and keeps > tracking, or looking for, it despite obstacles . Alternatively - if it > keeps > looking at an object as it approaches, and then, looks around, that > object - > if it is obviously investigating an object. I suspect that virtually > all, if > not all, living creatures will pass those tests. >
Yes this is like the type of simple environmental conscio-mechanical type of consciousness I picture in insects. Very simple, it'll look for food, avoid danger, track things, focus attention on things, has limited self-awareness, retains little memory, very hard-wired... but still to replicate something like what goes on in a praying mantis mind would require huge resources. > An agent is conscious if it shows signs of selective attention - if it > directs its movie, i.e. turns its sensors this way and that in an > obviously > purposeful, problemsolving way. > > (This makes me think a little tangentially of a movie of a sea anemone, > which is a pretty low order of life with only a neural net, suddenly > grabbing a fish that approaches near it with its tentacles, and > swallowing Cephalopods are supposedly quite intelligent creatures, perhaps quite conscious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
