On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/6/2017 1:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> I suspect that this is perhaps why Brent want to refer to the environment >> for relating consciousness to the machine, and in Artificial Intelligence, >> some people defend the idea that (mundane) consciousness occur only when the >> environment contradicts a little bit the quasi automatic persistent >> inference we do all the time. > > > That's Jeff Hawkins model of consciousness: one becomes conscious of > something when all lower, more specialized levels of the brain have found it > not to match their predictions.
In that sort of model, how does matter "know" that it is being used to run a forecasting algorithm? Surely it doesn't right? The only way this could work is if the forecasting algorithm and the cascading effects of failing predictions have the side effect of creating the "right" sort of interactions at a lower level that trigger consciousness. Then I want to know what these interactions are, and what if the "atom" of consciousness, what is the first principle. Without this, I would say that such hypothesis are not even wrong. Telmo. > Brent > > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
