On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Do you mean that the meaning in a guided missile system happens
as by-product of its development by engineers?
To me, it seems that meaning that you have defined in Mars
Rovers is yet another theory of epiphenomenalism.
And your quote and question are yet another example of "nothing
buttery" and argument by incredulity.
Brent
I am not sure if I understand you. I am not saying that I am right
but I really do not understand you point. You say
"Consciousness and computation are given their meaning by their
effecting actions in the world."
and it seems that you imply that this could be applied for a robot
as well. My thought were that engineers who have design a robot
know everything how it is working.
But they don't a robot, even one as simple as a Mars Rover perceives
and acts on things the engineers don't know. A more advanced robot
will also learn from experience and become as unpredictable as a
person from the engineer's standpoint.
Okay, let us take more advanced robots. I guess that
Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi, Bio-Inspired Artificial
Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
should be perfect here. You will find in the book about learning in
behavioral systems. Yet, the authors do not use the term consciousness
at all. They even talk about intelligence just once
Conclusion, p. 585 : “A careful reader have noticed that we have not yet
defined what intelligence is. This was done on purpose because
intelligence has different meanings for different persons and in
different situations. For example, some believe that intelligence is the
ability to be creative; other think that it is the ability to make
predictions; and others believe that intelligence exists only in the eye
of the observer. In this book we have shown that biological and
artificial intelligence manifests itself though multiple processes and
mechanisms that interact at different spatial and temporal scales to
produce emergent and functional behavior. The most important implication
of the approaches presented here is that understanding and engineering
intelligence does not reduce to replicating a mammalian brain in a
computer but requires also capturing multiply types and levels of
interactions, such as those between brains and bodies, individual and
societies, learning and behavior, evolution and development,
self-protection and self-repair, to mention a few”.
Hence, again let us imagine that a robot with artificial neural networks
developed as described in the book can learn something indeed. In the
book there are even examples in this respect. Yet, the engineers
developing it have not even thought about consciousness. Hence, in my
view, if consciousness happens to be in such a robot, then we could talk
without a problem about epiphenomenalism. Why not?
I have seen a project where engineers at least talk about a module QUALIA
http://www.mindconstruct.com/
“MIND|CONSTRUCT is developing a ‘strong-AI engine’, a so called AI-mind,
that can be used in (human-like) robotics, healthcare, aerospace
sciences and every other area where ‘conscious’ man-machine interaction
is of any importance.
The MIND|CONSTRUCT organization is the culmination of many years in
AI-research and the so called ‘hard-problems’, and the application of
elaborate experience in knowledge-management, for the design and
development of a ‘strong-AI engine’.“
If consciousness happens here, then we could at least find that it was
planned this way.
Evgenii
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http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2011/03/intelligence.html
http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2012/05/mindconstruct.html
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