This is a simple attempt to start a conversation about consciousness to get different points of view, so, it is aimed to be very open but with the goal to connect the ideas. As the title say, it is just an attempt to reach the readers with simple/basic questions, friendly ones.
I want to focus my energy in understanding consciousness, and then intelligence, it seems to me that thinking about consciousness is how I can contribute best. I have been thinking about three main models/generalizations which I would like very much to know your opinion, or even be given some references, which you think could be interesting to someone in this path. Here are the three main things: 1 - Conscience strives for adaptability. The most its state is coherent with the environment, the better its owner will survive. 2 - What every thought has in common is the purpose to improve the representation of a given domain from the conscience state cited above - Our thoughts make it by accessing, changing and creating new models/abstractions. It is useful to think about domains because our conscience can divide the challenge of representing the environment, using chunks that make sense for its adaptability. 3 - In this scenario, intelligence is how well the conscience is adapted to the environment, e.g. it makes sense to say that the dogs are less intelligent than us, because our conscience are better adapted than theirs in the environment the person who are saying it are (maybe a hectic human city). 4 - Changing the environment is a way to adapt. Changing the environment for better adaptability can be considered a high level of consciousness, because its models are so "sharp" that can be used to anticipate the environment, and change it. We do it with medicine, engineering, while talking, etc... Following are some questions/phrases which may be interesting while thinking about what I said before: 1 - Which would be the good building blocks to create a conscience state system? In a general sense, maybe not too tightly coupled with the Human one. Maybe existing ones, but arranged slightly differently 2 - There are modules that the conscience can change, and other that it can't and shouldn't. It's partly static and partly dynamic to be maintainable. 3 - Could it grasp the environment deeply, i.e. become excellent at a point that we could realise its beauty, but not its dynamics/structure? - Maybe the feeling the dogs has about humans. 4 - How could we create a system that follows ethics, driving all this development to the best direction? - Not creating simple slaves or egoist machines, but in a way which would leverage the life and the consciousness itself. Thank you for your patience, please, surprise me with something, maybe a completely different point of view, maybe just a slightly changed point of view which could open my mind to other set of ideas. I would like to know related ideas which could be interesting... Firstly I have a fundamental question: Why have you chosen to work with AGI in the first place? I want an emotional or philosophical answer. Which are your dreams regarding AGI? -- Felipe Carmona Miquilini ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
