With consciousness I'm merely observing functional aspects and using that in building an engineering model of general intelligence based on >1 agent. I feel consciousness improves communication, is a component and is important. And even with just one agent it's important IMO.
If you think about it that way and then think about "perceptual lossless" it starts getting interesting. At first blush one may say perceptual lossless is when you have a lossily compressed picture of a mountain that looks exactly like the uncompressed. Sure, that’s fine. But you don't know if something is lossless or perceptual lossless. And the questions begin: If I give you a lossless file will you always perceive it as lossless? Can a lossless file be losslessly recompressed to eliminate non-perceptible information? Is it still lossless then? Who is doing the perception? Decompressors and perceivers of the decompressed? Are there different perceivers of different capabilities? Can a compressed file hold various stages or types of perceptibility for different perceivers? With perceptual compression you start getting into third parties which involves multiparty communication complexity. Typically, it is assumed a compressor targets one decompressor type. In real life people rely on perceptual lossless compression in many ways when you think about it. You don’t really know what’s inside of things do you? You are relying on the unknown with confidence and certainty. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T252d8aea50d6d8f9-Mb8b39e6ab1e3d01b5d690dea Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
