Dinna fash yersel, its pure folderol. Kurzweil is into the union of Mind and machine by AI, cyborgism. Frank Herhert in his Dune Series long ago dismissed it to point out that human minds can far exceed anything a computer can do. Put simply humans can handle ambiguity and uncertainty, although perhaps reluctantly, computers cannot and are hardly likely they ever will. When Wiener spoke of Cybernetics a the relation between mind and machine he did not mean what it is now made out as the subordination of mind to the machine. Servants make bad masters, as we see with public servants. The quote below should do it.
As a researcher in computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) for over twenty years, I am known for my work on a variety of automated planning systems [Georgeff+Lansky1, Georgeff+Lansky2, Lansky1, Lansky2]. For instance, I have built artificial agents that "perceive", reason about their environment and about their own "beliefs", and take actions as a result. Despite, or perhaps because of my expertise in this area, I find myself alarmed by the emerging trend in the consciousness community to equate consciousness with simple awareness, or even with more complex forms of reasoning and action based on awareness. The natural result of this equation will be to find computers capable of consciousness or, perhaps even worse, to view humans as complex machines [Dennett]. Consciousness as an Active Force Amy L. Lansky, PhD Renaissance Research 4119 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, California 94028 lansky AT renresearch.com http://www.renresearch.com adrian ornamentalmind wrote: > "...What would be your answer? ..." - chreod > > About 14 hours formally, most of the rest of the time informally. > > Oh, and where did you copy/paste this from? > (You left a few remanents: >> >) > > > > > On Sep 18, 11:01 pm, chreodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
