Re: [singularity] Wrong focus?

2008-01-29 Thread gifting
On 29 Jan 2008, at 00:38, Thomas McCabe wrote: Check out Ramachandran: "Without a doubt it is one of the most important discoveries ever made about the brain, Mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology. They will provide a unifying framework and help explain a host of

Re: [singularity] Multi-Multi-....-Multiverse

2008-01-29 Thread gifting
On 29 Jan 2008, at 14:13, Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 11:49 AM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, but why can't they all be dumped in a single 'normal' multiverse? If traveling between them is accommodated by 'decisions', there is a finite number of them for any given time,

Re: [singularity] Multi-Multi-....-Multiverse

2008-01-29 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Jan 29, 2008 11:49 AM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, but why can't they all be dumped in a single 'normal' multiverse? > > If traveling between them is accommodated by 'decisions', there is a > > finite number of them for any given time, so it shouldn't pose > > structural prob

Re: [singularity] Wrong focus?

2008-01-29 Thread gifting
On 28 Jan 2008, at 22:31, Thomas McCabe wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 9:43 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stathis: Are you simply arguing that an embodied AI that can interact with the real world will find it easier to learn and develop, or are you arguing that there is a fundament

Re: [singularity] Multi-Multi-....-Multiverse

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Goertzel
> OK, but why can't they all be dumped in a single 'normal' multiverse? > If traveling between them is accommodated by 'decisions', there is a > finite number of them for any given time, so it shouldn't pose > structural problems. The whacko, speculative SF hypothesis is that lateral movement btw