On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Jesse Mazer <laserma...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I don't have a problem with the idea that a giant lookup table is just a > sort of "zombie", since after all the way you'd create a lookup table for a > given algorithmic mind would be to run a huge series of actual simulations > of that mind with all possible inputs, creating a huge archive of > "recordings" so that later if anyone supplies the lookup table with a given > input, the table just looks up the recording of the occasion in which the > original simulated mind was supplied with that exact input in the past, and > plays it back. Why should merely replaying a recording of something that > happened to a simulated observer in the past contribute to the measure of > that observer-moment? I don't believe that playing a videotape of me being > happy or sad in the past will increase the measure of happy or sad > observer-moments involving me, after all. And Olympia seems to be somewhat > similar to a lookup table in that the only way to construct "her" would be > to have already run the regular Turing machine program that she is supposed > to emulate, so that you know in advance the order that the Turing machine's > read/write head visits different cells, and then you can rearrange the > positions of those cells so Olympia will visit them in the correct order > just by going from one cell to the next in line over and over again. >
What if you used a lookup table for only a single neuron in a computer simulation of a brain? So actual calculations for the rest of the brain's neurons are performed, but this single neuron just does lookups into a table of pre-calculated outputs. Would consciousness still be produced in this case? What if you then re-ran the simulation with 10 neurons doing lookups, but calculations still being executed for the rest of the simulated brain? Still consciousness is produced? What if 10% of the neurons are implemented using lookup tables? 50%? 90%? How about all except 1 neuron is implemented via lookup tables, but that 1 neuron's outputs are still calculated from inputs? At what point does the simulation become a zombie? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---