<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/27 Gordon Swobe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Even if Zeus handed us a concrete example of an artificially constructed machine with strong AI, we could not abstract from careful study of that machine a formal program to run on a software/hardware system that would enable that s/h system to also have strong AI. We would need instead to recreate that machine.<br clear="all">
</blockquote></div><br>I am perhaps not following this thread closely enough to decide whether I agree with that statement, but I suspect I do.<br><br>In fact, either one drops an exagerately anthropomorphic view of "intelligence" (with projections such as "conscience", "agency", etc., which are already quite problematic to extend to the other organic brains); or I believe that the only way to deliver what he or she considers as "generally intelligent" would be to create a relatively close emulation of a human being.<br>
<br>Accordingly, it might be marginally easier to emulate at increasing levels of fidelity a *given* human being (thus producing what for all practical matters would end up being considered soon or later as un "upload" or a "mental clone" of the original) rather than artificially recreating one from scratch (i.e., probably by patching together arbitrary pieces of different and/or "generic" individuals).<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>