From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> Would you think Google could pull off self-referral consciousness or just algorithmic intelligence? It depends what you mean by "self referral". If a computer could see and hear and respond independently of it's programming to the world then it what way is it not conscious like us? Even seeing and hearing are limited, we perceive very little of our surroundings. A computer based intelligence might be aware far beyond what we are capable of and think us puny because of it. And they are already working on programmes that can improve themselves, this takes "self referral" to another level does it not? What I'm getting at is that we have this opinion that we are special simply by virtue of our ability to ponder the matter. But we could be designing something so much more impressive in our terms than what nature did for us. But first we have to understand ourselves - that's the tricky bit. But not impossible because we are things made of stuff. Or we could bypass human mimicry and build something innately superior in every way. Exciting times.
It certainly wouldn't be difficult to design a better intelligence than the pathetic version that humans have displayed over the centuries. The first concept that a halfway decent AI would throw out as the joke it is is religion.
