Terren's request for new metaphors/paradigms for intelligence threw me
temporarily off course.Why a new one - why not the old one? The computer.
But the whole computer.
You see, AI-ers simply don't understand computers, or understand only half
of them
What I'm doing here is what I said philosophers do - outline existing
paradigms and point out how they lack certain essential dimensions.
When AI-ers look at a computer, the paradigm that they impose on it is that
of a Turing machine - a programmed machine, a device for following programs.
But that is obviously only the half of it.Computers are obviously much more
than that - and Turing machines. You just have to look at them. It's
staring you in the face. There's something they have that Turing machines
don't. See it? Terren?
They have - a keyboard.
And as a matter of scientific, historical fact, computers are first and
foremost keyboards - i.e.devices for CREATING programs on keyboards, - and
only then following them. [Remember how AI gets almost everything about
intelligence back to front?] There is not and never has been a program that
wasn't first created on a keyboard. Indisputable fact. Almost everything
that happens in computers happens via the keyboard.
So what exactly is a keyboard? Well, like all keyboards whether of
computers, musical instruments or typewriters, it is a creative instrument.
And what makes it creative is that it is - you could say - an "organiser."
A device with certain "organs" (in this case keys) that are designed to be
creatively organised - arranged in creative, improvised (rather than
programmed) sequences of action/ association./"organ play.
And an extension of the body. Of the organism. All organisms are
"organisers" - devices for creatively sequencing actions/
associations./organs/ nervous systems first and developing fixed, orderly
sequences/ routines/ "programs" second.
All organisers are manifestly capable of an infinity of creative, novel
sequences, both rational and organized, and crazy and disorganized. The
idea that organisers (including computers) are only meant to follow
programs - to be straitjacketed in movement and thought - is obviously
untrue. Touch the keyboard. Which key comes first? What's the program for
creating any program? And there lies the secret of AGI.
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