On 3/7/2015 7:25 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 5:33 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I like Graziano's theory of consciousness.
He says consciousness is just another name for attention, but computers have been paying
attention to some things and not others form almost as long as they've existed. For
example the LHC produces nearly a billion particle collisions per second and each
collision produces about one megabyte of data, so you'd need 200,000 DVDs each second
the LHC is in operation to store that much information, and it's designed to be in
operation 20 hours a day 300 days a year. Even a computer can't remember all that,
Instead the computers looks at each collision and quickly decides if there is anything
that *might* be worthy of its attention and remembers only them.
So out of the billion collisions each second the computer only remembers and pays
attention to what happened in about 200 collisions, all the other data is just thrown
away. Even so that's still a HUGE amount of information to store. There is always the
possibility you're throwing away something important but there is no alternative, you
just can't keep it all.
As I understand it the proper analogy would not be selecting which collisions to analyze
in real time, it would be a level up from that: managing the allocation computer resources
(most of which are off the LHC site) to the selection process.
> under Graziano's theory it's a way of augmenting or improving
intelligence within
constraints of limited computational resources.
Is so then it would be easier to make a intelligent conscious computer than a
intelligent non-conscious computer.
Yes, an so consciousness would be "visible" to natural selection as an improvement in
intelligence.
Brent
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