John -- I guess you're right -- in a finite universe, notions like "intelligence" and "science" ultimately only have meaning relative to some context....
For instance, to define intelligence using computation theory (via Marcus Hutter's AIXI work or any other approach), one needs to assume some Universal Turing Machine as a reference machine -- but this "reference machine" is basically a Context in your sense... -- Ben G > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of John Pritchard > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [agi] Speculative thoughts on future AGI's > > > > >http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2004/AllSeeingAI.htm > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > Many comments... like your article, I'll go ahead and presume a variety > of "General" or "Advanced" AI -- mine differs in being less defined than > yours (as always ;-), and rooted in the belief that an appropriate (self > operational, etc) system based on a kind of heterarchical syntax tree > (eg, distributed database, global brain) is the only thing that can > yield GAI, and the rest (eg, morality) falls out of this. > > My comments relate to "context", as in "context sensitive languages". > > In terms of morality and friendliness and their origins, it is what we > can call the Context of a natural life that it is, in an individual, a > "life form" -- meaning it is fragile (subject to) and dependent on its > environment including other life forms. It is this Context that first > forms the basis of semantic meanings, and upon which higher order > meaning(s) are typically based. (I would not hold up mathematics as a > certain commonality, although generally the concept of abstraction being > common is undoubtedly valuable, because I am certain in my belief that > artificial mathematics would be completely different than ours). > > Likewise for the artificial life it will have its own context, an an > identical way, which implies that it will never comprehend most > statements from natural life, and natural life will never comprehend > most statements from such an artificial life. > > Building GAI with more intensive methods requires Context. A point in > the knowledge- awareness space can be a fuzzy intersection of multiple > domains, ie, context. > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
