[ExI] Why “Everyone Dies” Gets AGI All Wrong by Ben Goertzel

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net> 
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>…Yes. All intelligence is substrate-dependent, as in, dependent on a substrate. There's no such thing as a disembodied mind…

 

So that whole force-ghost thing from Star Wars is… damn I always wanted to have one of those guys back there.

 

>…I don't see, though, why it wouldn't be substrate-indifferent, within certain bounds. i.e. the substrate has to have certain properties….-- Ben

 

 

Thanks for that.  I agree and hope you are right.

 

 

>… Simple signals (individual neurons firing or not), organised into more complex data structures (neural spikes), up a level (spike trains) up a level (patterns of activation of low-level neural networks, where the same pattern of spike trains signifies different things in different axons)…You get the idea?

 

Ja thanks.  Ben I don’t understand the mechanics of neural spike this and spike trains that, but I do like the terminology.

 

spike

 

 

 
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