I suddenly realised that here are AGI-ers having all this very philosophical and ethereal conversation about consciousness, when actually consciousness - and my iworld-movie model of it, or you could call it a POV-movie model - is instantiated in a very practical way in video games.
In case you need reminding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y11kZqYSIKo OK that's v. crude, but it can get increasingly sophisticated and realistic, and the movie can include the agent's thoughts and reactions to the scene in front of him, as many POV movies/sequences do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v65EVc_8CYo And the screen can go black to mimic an agent closing their eyes/ shutting out the world to have thoughts. It's a fundamentally limited model, because it doesn't include a sensory movie of the agent's inner world and especially body. But if you want to copy intelligence, this is what intelligence does. Even when we take in what at first might seem like purely symbolic info. we're actually viewing it as a movie, making all kinds of visual/image assessments of the form of the information as well as symbolic ones of the content. And all our human thinking is actually projected onto our movie screen. We don't have pure, abstracted thought processes like computers. Another limitation of video games is that the intelligence is provided by the human brain playing them. But there is no reason why the computer can't provide the intelligence instead. All this begs the question of what kind of consciousness/intelligence Novamente or any other AGI agents have. The Novamente clip I saw is shown from a THIRD person, observer's POV, rather than the FIRST PERSON POV of the agent/pet, as my model requires. The second question all this begs is - maybe you need TWO computer systems to instantiate a true POV model of a conscious, intelligent agent - one to do the observing and thinking and reacting, another to create the world seen/scene. But in Novamente and other systems, I assume, the one computer takes care of everything? ------------------------------------------- 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
