DZ:AGI researchers do not think of intelligence as what you think of as a computer program -- some rigid sequence of logical operations programmed by a designer to mimic intelligent behavior.
1. Sequence/Structure. The concept I've been using is not that a program is a "sequence" of operations but a "structure.," including as per NARS, as I 've read Pei, a structure that may change more or less continuously. Techno-idiot that I am, I am fairly aware that many modern programs are extremely sophisticated and complex structures. I take into account, for example, Minsky's idea of a possible "society of mind", with many different parts perhaps competing - not obviously realised in program form yet. But programs are nevertheless manifestly structures. Would you dispute that? And a central point I've been making is that human life and activities are manifestly *unstructured* - that in just about everything we do, we struggle to impose structure on our activities - to impose "order" and "organization"., planning, focus etc. . Especially in AGI's central challenge -creativity. Creative activities are outstanding examples of unstructured activities, in which structures have to be created - painting scenes, writing stories, designing new machines, writing music/pop songs - often starting from an entirely blank page. (What's the program equivalent?) 2. A Programmer on Programs. "I am persuaded on multiple grounds that the human mind is not always algorithmic, nor merely computational in the syntactic sense of computational." S Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred Try Chap 12. Computationally, he trumps most AGI-ers in terms of most AI departments, incl. complexity, bioinformatics and general standing, no? Read the whole book in fact - it can be read as being entirely about the creative problem/challenge of AGI - you liked Barsalou, you'll like this. . ------------------------------------------- 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=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
