On 2/9/2013 4:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:52:46 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 2/9/2013 3:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:29:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 2/9/2013 3:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
> Evolution would have no need for generating values, since values are a
subjective
> motivation.
"Subjective motivation" is just a quantitative value seen from the
inside.
Why would quantitative values have an inside though? The only reason that
we might
presume that is because we are looking at it retrospectively. If you turn
it around
though, and assume quantitative mechanisms can exist without awareness,
then there
is no possibility of any interior experience being generated. How and why
would
such a thing arise?
> All evolution would have to do is simply impose a script that assigns
a high
priority to
> protecting ones own children and ones own life.
And that's what happened and that's what you feel as love of life and
love of
children.
I understand why that makes sense to you, but you are making that up by
taking the
undeniable existence of love and drawing a straight line to what you
presume,
unquestionably, to be the cause. It's an unfalsifiable misconception which
begs the
question. Lets say you wanted to make a computer program that did not feel
anything, but just reproduced and survived. Are you suggesting that is
impossible?
Yes. Just like a philosophical zombie is impossible because intelligence
entails
consciousness, goals and purposes (like survival) plus intelligence entails
values
and emotions.
It's circular reasoning. You are assuming that function is intelligence,
It's how I recognize intelligence - and so do you.
and then projecting your own human goals, purposes and consciousness onto that function.
Then, realizing that your own consciousness doesn't make any sense as far as assisting
function in any way
I don't 'realize' that - and neither do you. It's just another of your unsupported
assumptions.
, so you affirm the consequent by concluding that there can't be a philosophical zombie.
In reality, every machine that human beings have ever built is a potentially
philosophical zombie, it's entirely up to the beholder who determines how deeply they
subscribe to the pathetic fallacy.
Are you saying that whenever a sufficiently complex machine is programmed
to avoid
specific conditions that avoidance conjures an experience of pain out of
nowhere?
Pain and pleasure.
Can you explain why that would happen and how it could happen? 1+1 = pain?
> Like any computer program, a quantitative equivalence which is
unsentimental and
> unconscious would always be more effective.
Unsentimental, maybe. But not unemotional. For example, rage is very
useful
in defense
of one's children.
No it isn't. You are only looking at it retrospectively. The effectiveness
of rage
is not in the experience of rage, it is in the boost of strength, endurance,
aggressive behavior, etc. All of that could be engineered without inventing
some
kind of ridiculous 'emotional state' as a theatrical presentation.
That's what you say. But what do you think is an emotional state except
the boost
in adrenaline, the focus on objective, etc?
I think that an emotional state is a sensory-motor experience in which we participate
directly. Adrenaline is a substance, it has no emotional qualities. A dead person's body
could be filled with adrenaline and there would be no emotion there.
You are simply imagining the two can be separated because you have
different words
and viewpoints to describe them.
No, I am observing that there are different words for them because they have absolutely
nothing in common except a spatiotemporal correlation.
Look at it prospectively instead. You are trying to make an effective
replicator.
Why would you ever need to do anything but optimize its behaviors?
You wouldn't, but that would entail it having values and emotions.
Values and emotions don't exist yet. That's what I mean by looking at it prospectively.
You have to justify the creation of 'values and emotions', but you can't. You can only
claim blindness to the obvious difference between a machine acting rapidly and
forcefully, and an experience of anger and strength. It may not be your fault. I don't
know if I have every come across someone who has the Western orientation who is able to
shift their perception. It's a foreground-background shift, which you may not be wired
to be able to do, in which case I apologize for expecting you to be able to do that.
And I apologize for expecting you to be able to imagine that implementing intelligence
would entail value and emotion.
Brent
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