On 3/8/2015 1:26 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 8 March 2015 at 09:33, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
I like Graziano's theory of consciousness.
http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-consciousness-works/
I have generally been inclined to agree with JKC that natural selection
can't act on consciousness, only on intelligence; so consciousness is either
a necessary byproduct of intelligence or it's a spandrel. But under
Graziano's theory it's a way of augmenting or improving intelligence within
constraints of limited computational resources. So it would be subject to
natural selection. It also shows how to make intelligence machines without
consciousness (albeit less efficient ones).
Graziano equates consciousness with a model of the brain's state of
attention, but why couldn't this be done by an unconscious machine?
Because doing it makes the machine conscious.
It's valid as psychological theory, but it does not address the Hard
Problem. That's not necessarily a bad thing - there is more to be
gained from investigating the Easy Problem.
Yes, it comports with my idea that the "hard problem" will be dissolved by engineering
solutions.
Brent
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