A long time ago I read a self-help book (don't judge me) that included a story that goes something like this:
A workers team is cleaning a forest. A wise guy climbs the tallest tree and shouts: "wrong forest!". The manager replies: "shut up, we're making progress!". Telmo Am Di, 24. Nov 2020, um 19:17, schrieb Philip Thrift: > The Conscious Turing Machine > > video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=152yq0SPIqk > > arXiv: > https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09850 > > *A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness* > Manuel Blum [ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/ ], > Lenore Blum [ https://twitter.com/BlumLenore ] > > The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and > theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes. This > paper studies consciousness from the perspective of theoretical computer > science. It formalizes the Global Workspace Theory (GWT) originated by > cognitive neuroscientist Bernard Baars and further developed by him, > Stanislas Dehaene, and others. Our major contribution lies in the precise > formal definition of a Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), also called a > Conscious AI. We define the CTM in the spirit of Alan Turing's simple yet > powerful definition of a computer, the Turing Machine (TM). We are not > looking for a complex model of the brain nor of cognition but for a simple > model of (the admittedly complex concept of) consciousness. After formally > defining CTM, we give a formal definition of consciousness in CTM. We then > suggest why the CTM has the feeling of consciousness. The reasonableness of > the definitions and explanations can be judged by how well they agree with > commonly accepted intuitive concepts of human consciousness, the breadth of > related concepts that the model explains easily and naturally, and the extent > of its agreement with scientific evidence. > > cf. > https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/11/23/eureka-a-family-of-computer-scientists-developed-a-blueprint-for-machine-consciousness/ > > > > @philipthrift > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/662dd413-ee5a-4250-a12c-a8e138deb519n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/662dd413-ee5a-4250-a12c-a8e138deb519n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/883b0f77-4ff0-4586-9f77-bbbbe62a74ef%40www.fastmail.com.
