[ExI] Brain emulation, regions and AGI [WAS Re: Kelly's future]

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue May 31 10:52:58 UTC 2011


On 30 May 2011 20:01, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com> wrote:
> So when you say "I am inclined to agree..." you are probably then describing
> a position that was the one I was attacking :-).

Why, for once that I thought we were in agreement on an AI subject... :-)

> That is very much the opposite of whole brain emulation, since the latter is
> dominated by the idea of Circuitry Above All Else.

Let us say that if one goes low enough at a physical level, the
distinction between "hardware" and "software" and "data" of course
blurs. For a PC or for a living being. Higher-level emulations are
instead accurate or not basically depending on their purpose.

> But then, I think all of that will be a moot point, because I think that the
> arrival of a multi-brain AND the arrival of a single-brain WBE will both
> come long after the cognitive-level systems have been built, understood and
> become sentient research partners in the enterprise of studying WBE science.

If it is intended as something beyond the level of general
computation, which is easily achieved by many, actually most, systems,
"sentience" is nothing else that the behaviour exhibited by any
general computation device programmed to emulate (with acceptable
performance?) some features of biological brains, so I think this
sounds like a quite circular thing.

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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