yes, that kind of mind would surely think very differently than a human, just as would a mind that knew only mathematics ...
but, from a practical perspective, it seems more useful to think about minds that are rougly similar to human minds, yet better adapted to existing computer hardware, and lacking humans' most severe ethical and motivational flaws... ben g On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The real big deal is: how would a non-human brain/robot *think* > differently? It's easy to envisage radically different substrates. > > Here,for example, is a pure sci-fi form of radically different thinking. > Imagine a creation that could not just entertain images of things, but could > physically become them - morph into them, like, as I understand, The Thing > in the movie - something that could really put itself into other people's > skins. OK that's totally wild, but maybe it'll open the way to more > realistic possibilities. > > Eric/MT: > > >But, I suggest, if you examine them, these are all actually humanoid - >> >clear adaptations >> >>> of human intelligence. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that AGI-ers >>> often *talk* as if >>> they are developing, or could develop, a truly non-human intelligence - a >>> brain that >>> could think in *fundamentally* different ways from humans. >>> >> >> I think it's an issue of substrate. An AGI built on human-like >> cognitive principles -- even a total procedurally-accurate >> reimplementation of a human mind -- running on an electronic rather >> than organic platform would be a very different kind of intelligence >> indeed. >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome " - Dr Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
