Hmm. You're right I was intending to ask Telmo that question.
Brent
On 4/3/2013 5:52 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Brent,
You're mail client is malfunctioning again, you are quoting something Telmo wrote as
coming from me.
My opinion on the matter of philosophical zombies is that they are logically
inconsistent.
Jason
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 4/3/2013 2:44 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
You're making the same mistake as John Clark, confusing the physical
computer
with the algorithm. Powerful computers don't help us if we don't have
the right
algorithm. The central mystery of AI, in my opinion, is why on earth
haven't we
found a general learning algorithm yet. Either it's too complex for our
monkey
brains, or you're right that computation is not the whole story. I
believe in
the former, but not I'm not sure, of course. Notice that I'm talking
about
generic intelligence, not consciousness, which I strongly believe to be
two
distinct phenomena.
Then do you think there could be philosophical zombies? How would you
operationally
test a robot to see whether it was (a) intelligent (b) conscious?
Brent
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