PS I have to go in a minute to meet my other half to attend this... http://www.climatevoter.org.nz/debate/
On 3 September 2014 16:31, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
