yah, I discuss this in chapter 2 of "The Hidden Pattern" ;-) ... the short of it is: the self-model of such a mind will be radically different than that of a current human, because we create our self-models largely by analogy to our physical organisms ...
intelligences w/o fixed physical embodiment will still have self-models but they will be less grounded in body metaphors ... hence radically different .... we can explore this different analytically, but it's hard for us to grok empathically... a hint of this is seen in the statement my son Zeb (who plays too many videogames) made: "i don't like the real world as much as videogames because in the real world I always have first person view and can never switch to third person...." one would suspect that minds w/o fixed embodiment would have more explicitly contextualized inference, rather than so often positioning all their inferences/ideas within one "default context" ... for starters... ben On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The foundation of the human mind and system is that we can only be in one > place at once, and can only be directly, fully conscious of that place. Our > world picture, which we and, I think, AI/AGI tend to take for granted, is > an extraordinary triumph over that limitation - our ability to conceive of > the earth and universe around us, and of societies around us, projecting > ourselves outward in space, and forward and backward in time. All animals > are similarly based in the here and now. > > But,if only in principle, networked computers [or robots] offer the > possibility for a conscious entity to be distributed and in several places > at once, seeing and interacting with the world simultaneously from many > POV's. > > Has anyone thought about how this would change the nature of identity and > intelligence? > > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
