<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:24px"> if we can get silicon to see whatever we perceive as red and call it red, then it suggests it can learn a bunch of other perceptions and act like a human. spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:24px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:24px">Now Spike, why would we need something as sophisticated as an AI to measure the wavelength of some stimulus and render 'red' as its output? Similarly with sound. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:24px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:24px">We can see color when we are able to see. That suggests that the visual cortex is already wired to perceive different colors (different sounds, different degrees of skin pressure, and so on for all the senses). Why a chip cannot be programmed to do the same would be a mystery if it were not so easy to do. While in different people the exact location in that cortex might be a bit different, it won't be different by a lot (millimeters? a centimeter or so? of course I don't know that but I'll bet experts in vision do). I don't know about 'perceive'. That is the realm of philosophers. I skipped the 'Perception and Sensation course in grad school. bill w</span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_553918157632651711WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Fwd: New article: EM Field Theory of Consciousness<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">I don't give a pyramid's dust about substrate etc. But if two people say something is red, they are having similar experiences. That's the only way we can arrive at general truths accepted by most people. Are their brains doing identical things? Surely not, but surely they are similar. (only in the case of the red/green blind people will that not be true)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Billw as I understand it, the two brains perceive something different but both know to call that perception red.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I leave it to the qualia hipsters to debate that, for I don’t know enough about qualia to contribute.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">The substrate question is critically important to me, for if we can get silicon to see whatever we perceive as red and call it red, then it suggests it can learn a bunch of other perceptions and act like a human.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Concern: a machine can have abilities we can never have. It can shine a white light, measure a reflected 430 THz, or 700 nm, call it red, and be perfectly correct while perceiving nada. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">One of the biggest challenges in AI is if we create one which convinces us it is conscious but isn’t, any more than Eliza was back in the day. How many of us here have had a heart to… chip with Eliza? Plenty I would suppose. We knew that one wasn’t real, but it was fun to pretend, a great toy. What if we are no longer sure it isn’t real?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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