RE: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-07 Thread Yan King Yin
From: Philip Sutton Does anyone have an up-to-date fix on how much computation occurs (if any) within-cells (as opposed to the traditional neural net level) that are part of biolgical brain systems? especially in the case of animals that have a premium placed on the number of

Re: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-07 Thread Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Philip Sutton wrote: Does anyone have an up-to-date fix on how much computation occurs (if any) within-cells (as opposed to the traditional neural net level) that are part of biolgical brain systems? especially in the case of animals that have a premium placed on the number of neurones

Re: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-07 Thread Yan King Yin
From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abstract: Neurons carry out the many operations that extract meaningful information from sensory receptor arrays at the organism’s periphery and translate these into action, imagery and memory. Within today’s dominant computational paradigm, these

RE: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Goertzel
YKY wrote: I agree that uploading is not easy. Notice that your idea of recursive self-improvement being able to work wonders may also be very much hyped =) Intuitively I guess the rate of RSI might be roughly inversely proportional to the complexity of the task... About recursive

RE: [agi] Speculative thoughts on future AGI's

2004-02-07 Thread Ben Goertzel
John -- I guess you're right -- in a finite universe, notions like intelligence and science ultimately only have meaning relative to some context For instance, to define intelligence using computation theory (via Marcus Hutter's AIXI work or any other approach), one needs to assume some

RE: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-07 Thread Yan King Yin
From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] YKY wrote: I agree that uploading is not easy. Notice that your idea of recursive self-improvement being able to work wonders may also be very much hyped =) Intuitively I guess the rate of RSI might be roughly inversely proportional to the complexity of

RE: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-07 Thread Yan King Yin
From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with you that there will be no limits to the above 2 processes. What I'm skeptical about is how do we exploit this possibility. I cannot imagine how an AI can impose (can't think of better word) a morality on all human beings on earth, even given