On 4/30/2021 11:20 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:56 PM Terren Suydam
<terren.suy...@gmail.com <mailto:terren.suy...@gmail.com>> wrote:
/> I have arguments against your arguments,/
They say persistence is a virtue so I'll ask the same question for the
fourth time; given that evolution can't select for what it can't see
and natural selection can see intelligent behavior but it can't see
consciousness, can you give me an explanation of how evolution managed
to produce a conscious being such as yourself if intelligence is not
the inevitable byproduct of intelligence?
I could be the inevitable byproduct of the only path open to evolution.
Evolution has to always build on what has already been evolved. So what
was inevitable starting with ATP->ADP or RNA or DNA, might not be
inevitable starting with silicon or gallium. For example, electronics
are so much faster than neurons, it might be possible to implement
intelligent behavior just by creating giant hash tables of experience
and using them as look-ups for responses. I don't know that this is
possible, but it's not obviously impossible and then it would hard to
say whether this form of AI had qualia or not...unless you accepted my
engineering view on qualia.
Brent
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