On 10/23/07, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To make a system do something organized, you would have to give it goals > and motivations. These would have to be designed: you could not build > a "thinking part" and then leave it to come up with motivations of its > own. This is a common science fiction error: it is always assumed that > the thinking part would develop its own mitivations. Not so: it has to > have some motivations built into it. What happens when we imagine > science fiction robots is that we automatically insert the same > motivation set as is found in human beings, without realising that this > is a choice, not something that comes as part and parcel, along with > pure intelligence.
It can always pick something at random, can't it? Of course you can say that to do so, it must already have a motivation for it, it it all comes down to presence of design choice that makes speaking about motivations (as extracted from behavior as a whole) meaningful. -- Vladimir Nesov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=56683927-d0bbd0
