Ben, Look forward to reading your explanation, once you write it.
Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 11:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] To what extent can our minds experience the consciousness of external reality? > > Agreed. The beliefs we have expressed are certainly beyond humanity's > current powers of explanation, and at least certain aspects of them probably > always will be. But as I expressed in my recent discussion of Richard's > paper, I think science will know much more about consciousness in 50 years > (roughly 30 of which should be after the advent of human level AGI. Not > enough to remove all of its mysteries, but probably enough to remove some of > them. It's impossible to know what the world will look like to us once we've massively expanded our intelligence... for sure... > More interesting is your belief that computational systems *focus" > consciousness in particular ways. Can you be any more specific about this > belief? > I plan to write something systematic about this (an essay or a blog post) sometime in the next few weeks, so I'll save it for that. I'm wary of putting too much energy into emails, which are ephemeral by nature ;-) ben g ------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------- 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=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
