Matt, We can compute behavior, but nothing indicates we can compute feelings. Qualia research needed to figure out new platforms for uploading.
Regards, Jiri Jelinek On Nov 4, 2007 1:15 PM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jiri Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matt, > > > > Create a numeric "pleasure" variable in your mind, initialize it with > > a positive number and then keep doubling it for some time. Done? How > > do you feel? Not a big difference? Oh, keep doubling! ;-)) > > The point of autobliss.cpp is to illustrate the flaw in the reasoning that we > can somehow through technology, AGI, and uploading, escape a world where we > are not happy all the time, where we sometimes feel pain, where we fear death > and then die. Obviously my result is absurd. But where is the mistake in my > reasoning? Is it "if the brain is both conscious and computable"? ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=61383577-33004b
