[ExI] Societal coherency and AGI vs. Internal coherency and AGI

[Bryan Bishop]

On Thursday 06 March 2008, Jef Allbright wrote:
> Welcome to my club.  <grrrr>  That we each operate within our own
> model of 'reality', interpreting the world around us within contexts
> only partially overlapping, should (in the moral sense) inspire us to
> cooperate in creating an increasingly coherent, increasing
> encompassing model, rather than determinedly defending our models as
> if they were ourselves.

It is interesting that I too come to the same conclusion of create/use 
rather than preservation but through a different path. I wouldn't say 
that "partially overlapping contexts" should inspire us to cooperate. 
After all, we may not all have the same internal meaning, each of us 
tends to receive inspiration differently. That sounds like a top-down 
approach from looking at the status of society etc. And while that does 
show an arrow of increasing societal coherency, what about internal 
coherency leading to that conclusion to create? Of course, Jef, your 
response was wrt Richard's socio observation, yes, but perhaps this 
highlights a potential argument against public debate on these topics?

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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