> On 14 Dec 2018, at 04:18, Mason Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I’m wondering if any of you have read this paper and if so, what do you > think about it. The author says he’s discovered a new kind of mathematics > that could give rise to machine consciousness. A few other publications > picked it up but it got surprisingly little fanfare, for such a bold claim. > > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03301.pdf
This not bad, especially the idea of learning from hierarchical description from data, but I doubt it is new. The class algebra is total, and the whole thing seems close to some typed lambda calculus. He made some weird statement, like claiming that the axiom of choice is responsible for paradox in set theory, or for the existence of non halting machine. The fact that his class algebra imposes halting is rather dubious, especially in the frame of intelligence, which needs universality (imo) and thus unpredictable non halting behaviour. Its use of fuzziness is also not quite convincing (most similar attempts have failed). He mentions consciousness at the end of the paper, but seems really naive on this, and unaware of the conceptual problem: it is still the “easy” problem of consciousness (identifying []A with []A & A, actually, which makes sense in some applications, but is wrong in mechanist cognitive science). Now, I am not sure that the notion of super-intelligence makes sense by itself. It should be called “universal competence”, but it can be proved that this will not be applicable in any domain, as the author intends. I read it rather quickly, so perhaps I missed the big idea, but it does not seems so original, at least at first sight. Bruno > > -Mason > > -- > 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.
