On 24.09.2012 18:23 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/24/2012 2:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 23 Sep 2012, at 18:33, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following:
On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following:
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In the past, Bruno has said that a machine that
understands transfinite induction will be conscious. But
being conscious and intelligent are not the same thing.
Brent
In my view this is the same as epiphenomenalism. Engineers
develop a robot to achieve a prescribed function. They do not
care about consciousness in this respect. Then consciousness
will appear automatically but the function developed by
engineers does not depend on it. Hence epiphenomenalism seems
to apply.
Not at all. Study UDA to see why exactly, but if comp is
correct, consciousness is somehow what defines the physical
realities, making possible for engineers to build the machines,
and then consciousness, despite not being programmable per se,
does have a role, like relatively speeding up the computations.
Like "non free will", the "epiphenomenalism" is only
"apparent" because you take the "outer god's eyes view", but
with comp, there is no matter, nor consciousness, at that
level, and we have no access at all at that level (without
assuming comp, and accessing it intellectually, that is only
arithmetic).
This is hard to explain if you fail to see the
physics/machine's psychology/theology reversal. You are still
(consciously or not) maintaining the physical supervenience
thesis, or an aristotelian ontology, but comp prevents this to
be possible.
Bruno,
I have considered a concrete case, when engineers develop a
robot, not a general one. For such a concrete case, I do not
understand your answer.
I have understood Brent in such a way that when engineers develop
a robot they must just care about functionality to achieve and
they can ignore consciousness at all. Whether it appears in the
robot or not, it is not a business of engineers. Do you agree
with such a statement or not?
In my defense, I only said that the engineers could develop
artificial intelligences without considering consciousnees. I didn't
say they *must* do so, and in fact I think they are ethically bound
to consider it. John McCarthy has already written on this years ago.
And it has nothing to do with whether supervenience or comp is true.
In either case an intelligent robot is likely to be a conscious being
and ethical considerations arise.
Dear Bruno and Brent,
Frankly speaking I do not quite understand you answers. When I try to
convert your thoughts to some guidelines for engineers developing
robots, I get only something like as follows.
1) When you make your design, do not care about consciousness, just
implement functions required.
2) When a robot is ready, it may have consciousness. We have not a clue
how to check if it has it but you must consider ethical implications
(say shutting a robot down may be equivalent to a murder).
Evgenii
P.S. In my view 1) and 2) implies epiphenomenolism for consciousness.
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