> But there is some other kind of problem. We should have figured it out by > now. I believe that there must be some fundamental computational problem > that is standing as the major obstacle to contemporary AGI. Without solving > that problem we are going to have to wade through years of incremental > advances. I believe that the most likely basis of the problem is efficient > logical satisfiability. It makes the most senese given the nature of the > computer and the nature of the best theories of mind. > >
I think there must be a computational or physical/computational problem we have yet to clearly identify that goes along with an objection certain philosophers like Chalmers have made about neural correlates, roughly: why should one level of analysis or type of structure (eg neurons, brain regions, dynamically synchronized ensembles of neurons, or even the organism-environment system), have this magic property of consciousness? Since to me at least it seem obvious that the ecological level is the relevant level of analysis at which to find the meaning relevant to biological organisms, my sense is that we can reduce the above problem to a question about meaning/significance, that is: what is it about a system that makes it unified/integrated such that its relationship to other things constitutes a landscape of relevant meaning to the system as a whole. I think that if that an explanation of meaning-to-a-system is either the same as an explanation of first-hand subjectivity, or is closely tied to it, though if subjectivity turns out to be part of a physical problem and not a purely computational one, then we probably won't solve the above-posed problem without such a physical explanation being clarified (not necessarily explained though, just as we don't know what electricity really is for example). All computer software and situated robots that have ever been made are composed of actions or expressions that are meaningful to people, but software or robots have never been created that can refer to their own actions in a way that demonstrates skillful knowledge indicating that they are organized in a truly semantic way, as opposed to a merely programmatic way. ------------------------------------------- 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=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
