On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 8:58:14 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 2:17 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Conscious Turing Machine >> arXiv: >> https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09850 >> > >> *DEFINITION 1.5.1. At each time t ≥ 0, Short Term Memory holds exactly >> one chunk, which is designated the entirety of Conscious >> Turing Machine's conscious content. Consciousness in Conscious >> Turing Machine is defined to be the awareness (i.e. the reception by >> all Long Term Memory). It defines the conscious content of Conscious >> Turing Machine to be whatever chunk is in Short Term Memory; and then >> defines Conscious Awareness by the Conscious Turing Machineto be the >> reception by all Long Term Memory processors of Short Term >> Memory's broadcast of that content. The gists of those broadcasts may be >> viewed as the inner thoughts generated by Conscious >> Turing Machine's unconscious processors or the speech, vision, touch, >> taste, and/or whatever else is received as input by the Conscious >> Turing Machine* > > > Consciousness and awareness mean the same thing, so all the verbiage in > the above could be boiled down to "Consciousness in Conscious Turing > Machine theory is defined to be consciousness" which I don't find to be > terribly helpful. And in the article I don't see even a hint as to how an > experimental test could be performed to see if this "theory" is actually > correct. > > John K Clark > Blum defined a funny sort of meaning to incomputability, which is basically recursively enumerable. Blum stated this was incomputable because the computation would not halt and there is no final output. This differs from Turing's definition in that one cannot determine if all things halt or do not halt. The video is sort of long and I am not sure if I have the time to devote to this. This definition of inner thought being conferred to a system which exhibits the outward properties of a person known to have inner thoughts is not much different from the Turing test definition. This is couched in the definition of memory or long term memory as a cache of short term memories. This seems rather artificial to me. LC -- 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/1d07c3e8-d2cd-41a8-963b-97f9e72ad1fbn%40googlegroups.com.
