On 21 Jun 2011, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote:
On 6/21/2011 8:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Comp implies strong AI (but not vice versa: machine can think does
not entail that only machine can think).
Comp => STRONG AI: If I am a machine, then some machine can think
(assuming that I can think).
But comp denies that "we can prove that a machine can think". Of
course we can prove that some machine has this or that competence.
But for intelligence/consciousness, this is not possible. (Unless
we are not machine. Some non-machine can prove that some machine
are intelligent, but this is purely academical until we find
something which is both a person and a non-machine).
But of course we can prove that a machine can think to the same
degree we can prove other people think.
Yes. This means that we can't.
That we cannot prove it from some self-evident set of axioms is
completely unsurprising. This comports with my idea that with the
development of AI the "question of consciousness" will come to be
seen as a archaic, like "What is life?".
Not at all. Life is a third person describable organizational pattern.
With consciousness we have no choice than to take into account the
first and third person perspective, and this leads to the abandon of
Aristotle theology and a coming back to Plato. We know now that quanta
are particular case of qualia. The theory of everything, if we assume
we are machine, *is*, at the least, a theory of consciousness.
The question will never be archaic. On the contrary, it will be hotter
and hotter.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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