On 11/26/2014 4:49 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:01 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
>> If Evolution just stumbled onto consciousness because a
astronomically unlikely mutation occurred and not
because it was the byproduct of intelligence then it would be of neutral
survival value and the human race would have lost that property long
ago by
genetic drift.
> No, because consciousness might be a necessary byproduct of human like
intelligence, but not of all possible ways to achieving intelligence.
Evolution is
constrained in what adaptations it can develop.
Then just like Evolution we will find that it is easier to make a conscious intelligent
computer than to make a non-conscious intelligent computer; the first human level AI
will be conscious, and if we wish to make a computer that is equally smart but not
conscious it will take a great deal more R&D.
More likely we will make an AI that is intelligent, is not conscious like a human with an
inner narrative but is conscious in some other way which will be very difficult for us to
recognize. Bruno thinks he recognizes consciousness in jumping spiders because they appear
aware of their surrondings - yet it is very unlikely they experience an inner narrative.
Watson or Deep Blue might be conscious in this hard to recognize way. A lot of our
recognition of consciousness in other people is just based on their similarity to ourselves.
Brent
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