Hi Ben,
My own feeling is that computation is just the latest in a series of technical
metaphors that we apply in service of understanding how the universe works.
Like the others before it, it captures some valuable aspects and leaves out
others. It leaves me wondering: what future metaphors will we apply to the
universe, ourselves, etc., that will make computation-as-metaphor seem as
quaint as the old clockworks analogies?
I believe that computation is important in that it can help us simulate
intelligence, but intelligence itself is not simply computation (or if it is,
it's in a way that requires us to transcend our current notions of
computation). Note that I'm not suggesting anything mystical or dualistic at
all, just offering the possibility that we can find still greater metaphors for
how intelligence works.
Either way though, I'm very interested in the results of your work - at worst,
it will shed some needed light on the subject. At best... well, you know that
part. :-]
Terren
--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [agi] Recursive self-change: some definitions
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 4:50 PM
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Eric Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I really see a number of algorithmic breakthroughs as necessary for
the development of strong general AI
I hear that a lot, yet I never hear any convincing arguments in that regard...
So, hypothetically (and I hope not insultingly),
I tend to view this as a kind of unconscious overestimation of the awesomeness
of our own
species ... we feel intuitively like we're doing SOMETHING so cool in our
brains, it couldn't
possibly be emulated or superseded by mere algorithms like the ones computer
scientists
have developed so far ;-)
ben
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