On 22 Mar 2011, at 21:16, stephenk wrote:
On Mar 22, 1:13 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 22 Mar 2011, at 17:26, meekerdb wrote:
On 3/22/2011 7:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Clearly qualia is a problem, have no idea how it could emerge.
I can explain why universal machine have qualia. It comes from the
self-reference logic. But only rich machine (the Löbian one), can
talk and develop discourse about their qualia, and have to be
astonished about them, until they bet that they are machines.
Qualia are sort of automated gap-filling in self-perception. They
obey a qualia logic,
What logic is that?
The logic is described by X1*. That is, the eighth arithmetical
hypostase. It is the logic of Bp Dp p, with p arithmetical
sigma_1
propositions.
Dp makes the belief (Bp) physical, and p makes is true. (and
being sigma_1 makes it accessible by the UD).
Do you take qualia to imply *conscious* perception?
Yes. I take qualia as implying conscious perception. But
consciousness
can exist without qualia (I think). A long time ago, I would have
said that consciousness needs at least the quale of duration, but I
am
no more sure on that.
Or do you assume consciousness is an internal discourse?
No. But Löbian machine can develop discourse about them. Qualia
typically escapes words, but some can be related to perceptible
fields, like colors, or like proprio-perception (the feeling to
occupy
a place in space).
Bruno
Brent
and mechanism makes the quanta a particular case of qualia. This is
even too much 'subjectivist' to me, but then I have no way to
escape logical conclusions.
On the other hand, biologists claim that even bacteria can
perceive
http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2011/01/perception-feedback-and-qualia.html
Do those biologists pretend that bacteria have qualia? I have not
much evidence, but I would bet they do, as little universal system
sharing our histories. I have more evidence that paramecia have
qualia, by they more complex behaviors, and appearance of some
amount of information flux crossing the cell. But that might be
some sort of human projection, and I have no certainty.
In case of doubt, despite it might look a bit naïve, it is
preferable to bet that an entity has qualia, than to bet the
contrary. This might avoid suffering.
Hi Brent and Bruno,
Could the qualia/quale question be answered by considering self-
modeling relations? Consider the idea that a system could generate
simulations of itself and, going further, even generate simulations of
other systems other than itself.
Quote from:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=automaton-robots-become-self-aware
The greatest challenge for robots today is figuring out how to adapt
to new situations, he says. There are millions of robots out there,
mostly in factories, and if everything is in the right place at the
right time for them, they are superhuman in their precision, in their
power, in their speed, in their ability to work repetitively 24/7 in
hazardous environments—but if a bolt falls out of place, game over.
This lack of adaptability is the reason we don't have many robots in
the home, which is much more unstructured than the factory, Lipson
adds. The key is for robots to create a model of themselves to figure
out what is working and not working in order to adapt.
So, Lipson and his colleagues developed a robot shaped like a four-
legged starfish whose brain, or controller, developed a model of what
its body was like. The researchers started the droid off with an idea
of what motors and other parts it had, but not how they were arranged,
and gave it a directive to move. By trial and error, receiving
feedback from its sensors with each motion, the machine used repeated
simulations to figure out how its body was put together and evolved an
ungainly but effective form of movement all on its own. Then we
removed a leg, and over time the robot's self-image changed and
learned how to move without it, Lipson says.
Now, instead of having robots modeling their own bodies Lipson and
Juan Zagal, now at the University of Chile in Santiago , have
developed ones that essentially reflect on their own thoughts. They
achieve such thinking about thinking, or metacognition, by placing two
minds in one bot.
That's a good idea, i think. A brin is not just one intergated
universal machine, it is two universal machine in front of each other.
It is even two brains in front of each others, so that recursively a
brain is 2, 4, 8, 16 ... brains looking at each others.
One controller was rewarded for chasing dots of blue
light moving in random circular patterns and avoiding red dots as if
they were poison, whereas a second controller modeled how the first
behaved and whether it was successful or not.
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end quote
My belief is that qualia are our self-simulations and their
complexity follows from the way that simulations operate, their
algebra if you will.
There is an algebra
