On 1 September 2014 04:27, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The Kolmogorov complexity of AGI could be relatively low -- maybe it >> can be expressed in 1000 lines of lisp. >> > > That is not a crazy idea because we know for a fact that in the entire > human genome there are only 3 billion base pairs. There are 4 bases so each > base can represent 2 bits, there are 8 bits per byte so that comes out to > just 750 meg, and that's enough assembly instructions to make not just a > brain and all its wiring but a entire human baby. So the instructions MUST > contain wiring instructions such as "wire a neuron up this way and then and > then repeat that procedure exactly the same way 917 billion times". And > there is a huge amount of redundancy in the human genome, if you used a > file compression program like ZIP on that 750 meg you could easily put the > entire thing on half a CD, not a DVD not a Blu ray just a old fashioned > steam powered vanilla CD. > > This is enough information to build a general purpose conscious being, it would appear, but a baby is only born with some fairly simple instinctive behaviour (plus the adolescent gains some more instinctive behaviour at puberty). Even the visual cortex, which is probably not conscious and probably comes out roughly similar in most people, is created by trial and error. The neocortex must be even more so, to the Nth degree. Hence you have 750 meg of data (or whatever the figure is) that builds an infant, then you have a world which educates them.
As per what I was saying about Watson (or whatever it's called), the baby needs to be immersed in an environment in order to develop any form of consciousness beyond the rudimentary raw feels provided by nature - that is, it needs to be educated by interaction with the environment, and with other people (i.e. assimilate culture). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
