On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:21:10PM +1200, LizR wrote: > > > > Another possibility - suppose we develop AIs, and they boostrap themselves > > into benig vastly cleverer than us - might they not design conscious > > experiences that have never been experienced before directly, as an art > > form, say? > > > > "Brave new world" started this trend with the "feelies". > > The trend might go something like > > Books and recorded/invented experiences reenacted "live" (plays etc) - > primitive VR (lose yourself in a good book) > Recorded sound > Recorded vision > Sound and vision > Recordings of experiences through the senses (tapping into nerve channels) > Ditto including emotions > Ditto including thoughts > All of the above, created "de novo" by artists and/or computer programmes >
There is no problem if created by computer programs. After all, COMP is the assumption that this is possible. What is the problem is if these new "thoughties" pop into existence on their own without any process leading up to them. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
