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 [email protected] 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 [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.
