On 08 May 2015, at 06:25, LizR wrote:
On 8 May 2015 at 15:40, Russell Standish <[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
Only from the viewpoint of unlikelihood (about the same as the
materialisation of a Boltzmann brain, I would imagine). But that
doesn't make any difference to any philosophical implications!
I agree.
But it makes a huge difference for the math of the measure.
Bruno
....however, yes, that was why I suggested an alternative mechanism
that I think people may feel is more plausible.
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