On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:39 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> A part of its information processing system that is highly integrated > will indeed be conscious. However, IIT research has shown that for many > integrated systems,one can design a functionally equivalent feed-forward > system that will be unconscious. This means that so-called “p-zombies” can, > in principle, exist: systems that behave like a human and pass the Turing > test for machine intelligence, yet lack any conscious experience > whatsoever. Many current “deep learning” AI systems are of this p-zombie > type. Fortunately, integrated systems such as those in our brains typically > require much fewer computational resources than their feed-forward “zombie” > equivalents, which may explain why evolution has favored them and made us > conscious. > If correct then it would be easier to make a super intelligent conscious computer than to make a super intelligent non-conscious computer; as I've said consciousness is easy but intelligence is hard. But the trouble is even if the Integrated information theory is correct there is no way you could ever prove it's correct. And I don't know why he said "made us conscious", he should have said "made me conscious". 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.
