On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:24:37PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > 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). >
This actually supplies a good reason for why we should find ourselves in a regular, lawlike universe. We can get by with a smaller genome, and learn the rest of the stuff that makes up our mental life, which is a more likely scenario (even evolutionary speaking) than having a large genome directly encoding our knowledge. Of course, that is only possible if in fact the environment is regular enough to be learnable. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
