Conscious experience - the soul or whatever it is - is not relevant to contemporary computer science. I do not agree with the dismissal of that feeling of experience either. As I told Marvin Minsky I do agree that whatever conscious experience is it probably has the potential to be explained by science one day, but right now it is a mystery.
There are some complications of the experience of our existence, and those complications may be explained by the complex processes of mind. Since we can think we can think about the experience of life and interweave the strands of the experience of our existence. But that does not mean that the essential experience can be explained by complicated thinking or some other dismissive denial. The processes of higher intelligence may shed light on the complexity problem but the experience of consciousness is irrelevant to AI because it is not strictly a computational thing. It cannot be reduced by our theories of mind or life which are currently available and which are certainly not part of computer science. Jim Bromer On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM <johnr...@polyplexic.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, September 13, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Jim Bromer wrote: > > I don't even think that stuff is relevant. > > > Jim, > > It's relevant if consciousness is the secret sauce. and if it applies to the > complexity problem. > > Would a non-conscious entity have a reason to develop AGI? > > John > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T59bc38b5f7062dbd-Mdf21c1f70ad4448e8dad71ae Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
