Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:08 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *This is not the reason why AI is not conscious.* > The "I" in AI stands for intelligence not consciousness, do you believe a AI can be intelligent? And by "intelligent" I mean whatever you meant when,

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 8:07:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 4/21/2019 6:31 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: *Here's something odd. At 9:45 in Susskind's Lecture 2 on GR, he says the metric tensor is a Kronecker delta

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 8:07:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/21/2019 6:31 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> *Here's something odd. At 9:45 in

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 8:07:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>>

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/24/2019 4:11 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 8:07:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 4/21/2019 6:31 PM, agrays...@gmail.com

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:46:33 UTC+3, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:08 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > > *This is not the reason why AI is not conscious.* >> > > The "I" in AI stands for intelligence not consciousness, do you believe a >

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-24 Thread Terren Suydam
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:03 AM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > For this you don't even need idealism. You can just take the brain as a > black box ready to receive the proper input in order to generate the proper > qualia. You will most likely not

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le mer. 24 avr. 2019 à 15:57, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> a écrit : > > > On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:46:33 UTC+3, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:08 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < >> everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> > *This is not

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 22 Apr 2019, at 06:41, Terren Suydam wrote: > > 1) Causality can still exist even if time is an illusion. For example in > block-time, time is an indexical - all times can be said to exist at once - > but that in no way diminishes the role of causality in describing the > dynamics and

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-24 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:51:06 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > With mechanism, there is no choice: physics must be explained in term of > number’s dream statistics. The logic of this gives a quantum logic, mincing > nature confirming Mechanism (and its immaterialism). > >

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:29:36 AM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:06:10 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 23 Apr 2019, at 13:39, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 4:00:26 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 22 Apr 2019, at 21:38, Terren Suydam wrote: > > Of course we have a choice. The primacy of consciousness may entail nothing > more than an epistemological barrier - we may never be able to experience > reality directly, or know its true form, but that doesn't force us to deny > the

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 23 Apr 2019, at 13:39, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 4:00:26 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 20 Apr 2019, at 23:14, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 2:53:00 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 19

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:16 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I don't see why it would matter. If you obtain consciousness, that > consciousness will have free will, so will take over the whatever > subcomponents that you might use, so those

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:57 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> If you obtain consciousness, that consciousness will have free will, so* > [...] Free Will?! In the entire history of philosophy or law nothing has generated more fuzzy thinking than "free will", it's

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:06:10 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 23 Apr 2019, at 13:39, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 4:00:26 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 20 Apr 2019, at 23:14, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday,

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/24/2019 9:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Until we get evidence for some matter (like observing a discrepancy between the physics extracted from arithmetic) Which is unlikely because no physics is extracted from arithmetic. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/24/2019 4:44 AM, smitra wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNiiLfB8s0s A thoroughly dishonest presentation.?? Pross selective misrepresents quotes from people who are all arguing for the physical basis of life.?? He quotes Morowitz on the impossibility of randomly realizing an

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/24/2019 6:36 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:46:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 4/24/2019 4:17 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:04:43 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/24/2019 4:11 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/24/2019 4:17 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, April 21,

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:46:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/24/2019 4:17 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
It's simple. You say: "Santa Claus has legs and arms like humans, therefore Santa Claus must exists." On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:50:03 UTC+3, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > Could you share your *serious* thinking on our santa claus belief to us > unserious people ? > > -- You received this

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
But it happens all the time. How do you think you move your body if not by top-down influence in levels from consciousness ? On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:06:07 UTC+3, stathisp wrote: > > > Why has no-one ever observed the components of the brain breaking physical > laws? It should happen all

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:17:14 PM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 3:34:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/21/2019 7:35 PM,

Re: Questions about the Equivalence Principle (EP) and GR

2019-04-24 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 8:59:52 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/24/2019 6:36 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:46:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/24/2019 4:17 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-24 Thread Samiya Illias
Salam. Science can only try to answer the HOW, but for the WHY questions, we need to turn to the scriptures. In my study of the factual accuracy of The Quran, I have been pleasantly surprised with insights into questions such as these. Though you may not find clear answers, you may find new ways

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
Are you aware of the Grey Walter experiments that imply your brain thinks of moving before your consciouness.?? Of course I know the brain and Grey Walter and his experiment don't existand neither do you. Brent On 4/24/2019 9:42 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: But it happens

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
This is like saying: If you replace part of the computer screen with drawings made on a piece of paper, what does this indicate ? Well... it indicates that on the part replaced with the piece of paper, nothing will happen anymore. On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 01:41:14 UTC+3, stathisp wrote: > >

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
For this you don't even need idealism. You can just take the brain as a black box ready to receive the proper input in order to generate the proper qualia. You will most likely not detect infrared light and others, simply because the black box is not made to detect them. And there is another

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
So ultimately they are not "artificial", but natural, grown through biological processes, not assembled in a factory. Then they are natural and are not made of atoms, but are made by invisible natural processes that are also responsible for the workings of consciousness. I think this fact must

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Philip Thrift
This is the whole point: The neuronal cells being replaced in the brain can't be made of anything. The replacements (synthetic neurons) have to be made of atoms/molecules such that they that replicate the actual chemical processing abilities of the cells they are replacing. - pt On

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Philip Thrift
They ("synthetic neurons") are assembled in laboratories/factories. New neuron-like cells allow investigation into synthesis of vital cellular components https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180122164702.htm - pt On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 2:54:01 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
There might be some room for wiggling, but ultimately red must be red. On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 11:47:52 UTC+3, stathisp wrote: > > > A piece of paper wouldn’t work as a computer screen replacement. Replacing > an LCD screen for an LED screen would work; replacing a spinning hard drive >

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le mer. 24 avr. 2019 à 09:03, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> a écrit : > For this you don't even need idealism. You can just take the brain as a > black box ready to receive the proper input in order to generate the proper > qualia. You will most likely not

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 4:46 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > This is like saying: If you replace part of the computer screen with > drawings made on a piece of paper, what does this indicate ? Well... it > indicates that on the part replaced with

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
I don't know. These are problems to be solved. But notice that consciousness doesn't need "fruits" per se, but it needs whatever reality is behind the appearance of "fruits". Why it needs that I don't know. On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 11:10:06 UTC+3, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > Hi, > > All of

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
I think that if we want to have any shot at understanding reality we need to be serious in our thinking. "Assembled in factories" sounds like you just take atom by atom and put them together, which clearly is not what happens. People start with already living cells and just modify them a

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 7:14 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > There might be some room for wiggling, but ultimately red must be red. > > On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 11:47:52 UTC+3, stathisp wrote: >> >> >> A piece of paper wouldn’t work as a

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-24 Thread Samiya Illias
This might be of interest: http://signsandscience.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-creation-emergence-of-species.html > On 24-Apr-2019, at 2:16 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > wrote: > > I don't know. These are problems to be solved. But notice that consciousness > doesn't need "fruits"

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 4:09:37 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > I think that if we want to have any shot at understanding reality we need > to be serious in our thinking. "Assembled in factories" sounds like you > just take atom by atom and put them together, which clearly is not

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread smitra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNiiLfB8s0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGb12xBKlM On 24-04-2019 09:54, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: So ultimately they are not "artificial", but natural, grown through biological processes, not assembled in a factory. Then they are natural and

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread John Clark
On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 6:28 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > *Only if you never did some serious thinking you can consider AI can be > conscious. * > What sort of serious thinking did you engage in that enabled you to conclude any of your fellow human beings

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:54 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> So ultimately they are not "artificial", but natural, grown through > biological processes, not assembled in a factory. Then they are natural and > are not made of atoms, but are made by invisible

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
This is not the reason why AI is not conscious. The reason is that AI doesn't even exist, is just an idea in consciousness. Consciousness which of course is not made out of atoms. We are not made out of atoms. "Atoms" are just ideas in consciousness. On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:50:12 UTC+3,

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-24 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
I don't see why it would matter. If you obtain consciousness, that consciousness will have free will, so will take over the whatever subcomponents that you might use, so those subcomponents will stop obeying the "physical laws" that we know from simple systems. On Wednesday, 24 April 2019