Hi, current and parallel universes, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote to the AGI list: > >Hi all, >You might be interested in a little article I wrote, published here: > > >http://theconversation.edu.au/learning-experience-lets-take-consciousness-i= >n-from-the-cold-6739 > >I am embarked on the long process of getting science to self-review. > >Enjoy! > >Colin
OK, I saved the message to disk, then opened it and plunked the URL down into the MSIE address bar: http://theconversation.edu.au/learning-experience-lets-take-consciousness-in-from-the-cold-6739 Hmm, C.G. Hales adumbrates "The Decade of the Brain" (1990-200) -- that's so five minutes ago! Now C.G.H. talks about "the late Nobel Laureate Francis Crick". Ah, yes, poor Francis, I knew him well. That is to say, I knew his son Michael and his grandson Francis. Both Michael Crick here in Seattle and his father Francis Crick in La Jolla were Amiga computer owners back in 1989. One time at an Amiga evening I had to introduce Michael Crick, the son of a single-prize Nobelist (DNA) to the James Bardeen, the Amiga-owning son of a double-prize Nobelist (transistor; superconductivity). But enough name-dropping; do you know Ben bar-Ted Goertzel? "Now, following a tsunami of empirical work"... C.G.H. continues (that's how you talk when you live in The Antipodes :-) "...there is still no account of consciousness that an engineer might use to construct a conscious machine." Oh, gee. Here we go. http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/ConSciousness tells an engineer ("Now I are one.") how to do it. Oh, there's a cool phrase: "sparsely embedded around the world"! And: "Feeling a little uncomfortably sacred, are we?" Say, did C.G.H. ever consider selfpubbing an e-book? Among the Nine Comments, there is one from a certain "Sean Parker". Was that the inventor of Napster? Wasn't he depicted in "The Social Network" as commandeering the genesis of Facebook? Or is it a different Sean Parker? Oh, there's a comment from Otmar Pokorny Independent Scholar (logged in via email @att.net) And now from Mentifex the independent scholar in AI, thank you for an exciting read about "mens sibi conscia". Arthur -- http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=7561672 http://ihateseattle.com/members/crawdad-man-of-green-lake http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-T.-Murray/e/B004OKWAM8/ http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000540906/AI4U.aspx ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
