On 3 September 2014 16:15, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi LizR, > > Yes, I am saying that there may be AIs around already unaware of our > existence and vice versa! Cultures, languages, religions, etc. all have the > behaviors that we would associate with entities that are to some degree > "self-aware" in that there are "self-replication" behaviors associated - > See Dawkin's The extended Phenotype > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype> - Humans are quite > capable of becoming members of a sufficiently expressive language as > silicon hardware... > > While not disagreeing with this general idea (it's rather intriguing) I'm not sure "self-aware" is entailed by "self-replicating" ?! "The Extended Phenotype", iirc (it's a long time since I read it, which was around when it first came out) posits that the environment of an organism gets entrained by its genes, effectively - or to put it another way, that the body doesn't end at the skin (or bark, etc). That seems kind of the inverse of the "AGI hypothesis" ? -- 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.
