On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:30 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> More likely we will make an AI that is intelligent, is not conscious like > a human with an inner narrative but is conscious in some other way which > will be very difficult for us to recognize. > With the obvious exception of our own, consciousness is not very difficult to recognize, it is IMPOSSIBLE to recognize, and it doesn't matter if it's another human or a computer. All we can recognize is intelligent behavior and then try to make a conclusion from that observation using one of the enumerable theories about consciousness that are available. And all the many consciousness theories are different from each other and all of them work about equally well (or badly). And having no facts that must be fitted to theory is why the profession of consciousness theoretician is so incredibly easy and why they are so common on the internet. However it's hard as hell to find a good intelligence theory because it must be compatible with a astronomical number of very diverse facts, so it's not surprising that intelligence theoreticians are very rare on the internet. Consciousness is easy but intelligence is hard. John K Clark -- 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.
