On 3/5/07, Shane Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would such an AIXI system have feelings or awareness? I have no idea, indeed I don't even know how to define such things outside of my own subject experience of them...
I don't know how to define them either, but I can answer your question. What programs of the "please run this on an infinite computer" type (AIXI, Blockhead, a bunch of others with acronyms and cutesy names that I don't remember) actually amount to is "suppose I am Jehovah, then I will create all possible universes [or all universes of a certain type] and select the ones with relevant properties". (Which is mathematically consistent though of no practical relevance seeing as one is not actually Jehovah.) In general, some of the universes so created will contain conscious beings. So a simple infinite computation would contain conscious beings, even though it would not itself be conscious. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
