Richard: Mike Tintner wrote:
No one in AGI is aiming for common sense consciousness, are they?
Inasmuch as I understand what you mean by that, yes of course.
Both common sense and consciousness.
As Ben said, it's something like "multisensory integrative consciousness" -
i.e. you track a subject/scene with all senses simultaneously and
integratedly.
You're crossing a road - you track both the oncoming car and your body with
all your senses at once - see a continuous moving image of the car, hear
the noise of the engine and tires, possibly smell it if there's a smell of
gasoline, have a kinaesthetic sense of your body in relation to the car,
including a sense of up/down, left/right etc and are doing "body
thinking/mapping" about whether your body and the car will or won't collide
if you move at such-and-such speeds, and whether your nerves and muscles can
supply the necessary hormones and power in time. and no doubt there's a few
other senses involved that I've left out! And all this sensory processing is
integrated and cross-referenced and cross-checked - you'd be really
disturbed if the car looks as if it's going slowly, but sounds as if it's
going fast, just as people are disturbed when they see a card of black
hearts.
You guys seem to think this - true common sense consciousness - can all be
cracked in a year or two. I think there's probably a lot of good reasons -
and therefore major creative problems - why it took a billion years of
evolution to achieve.
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