[agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread johnrose
"Shortcut",  yes there is no shortcut... or is there? "Consciousness is what thinking feels like." EXACTLY!  Define "feel" in the mathematical sense. We coat concepts with words (symbols). Where do they come from? John -- Artificial General Intelligence L

[agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread keghnfeem
I have a complete AGI model that explain it all. But no one wants to give me credit for it.   They just keep poaching my work and call it there work, like ripping off hub caps form a car. Like this fool here. The visual alphabet 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6MB-ZgPcNg And  this person

[agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread johnrose
"AGI is  100 percent consciousness"  Please throw the AI guys a bone, line 10%?  Even though it's mostly grunt. Sorry I don't really feel that way I know there is something there there is! John -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: h

[agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread keghnfeem
 Consciousness has to do with observing temporal patterns. Intelligence is for how well a AGI  understanding these temporal patterns. And how well it can control these temporal patterns. And how well   it can prediction these temporal patterns.  Yes, a rat is conscious but not very intelligent.

[agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread johnrose
"Consciousness has to do with observing temporal patterns." The term pattern is ... obscure I'm afraid I try to avoid it but... It's more than observe, I would say occupy representation. A pattern is a representation. Only terminology?  Two patterns from different domains - the key is how do th

[agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread keghnfeem
Consciousness is Memory: https://vimeo.com/98785998 -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M819fa2b8a5413ae9eb019d0b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread Matt Mahoney
How do you test whether a rat is conscious or not? On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 9:24 PM wrote: > "Consciousness has to do with observing temporal patterns." > The term pattern is ... obscure I'm afraid I try to avoid it but... > > It's more than observe, I would say occupy representation. A pattern is

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread keghnfeem
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151217151716.htm -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-Me0f711ecf4c52ac5f0e72703 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subs

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread johnrose
How about:  Write an expression for or compute the consciousness of a clock. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M77f3de8ef0fd657b53de65f3 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/gr

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread keghnfeem
It is about a program that can learn what a clock is. This is what machine learning is all about -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M2139e482264f8202d4fa8eb7 Delivery options: https:

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread Matt Mahoney
So the hard problem of consciousness is solved. Rats have a thalamus which controls whether they are in a conscious state or asleep. John, is that what you meant by consciousness? On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 9:13 PM wrote: > Consciousness has to do with observing temporal patterns. Intelligence is >

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread immortal . discoveries
To clear understanding of these unsettling words like simulating/ dreaming, consciousness, etc, I have found related meanings to many of these words in AGI. GPT-2 uses a Transformer that uses Attention. This considers context, and the more context - the more consciousness. Besides that, knowing

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
: Saturday, 24 August 2019 06:18 To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings To clear understanding of these unsettling words like simulating/ dreaming, consciousness, etc, I have found related meanings to many of these words in AGI. GPT-2 uses a Transformer that uses Attention. This

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-23 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On 8/24/19 8:44 AM, Nanograte Knowledge Technologies wrote: This machine is not even aware that it is a human being typing. It has zero concept of being communicated with via the Web. It reasons it could be a bear, or a girl that prompted it in the English language. FAIL But we cannot be s

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-24 Thread immortal . discoveries
Sentiment detection, human-written detection, danger detection, there's infinite detections. It must recognize the input and say what entails using its knowledge.  The "concept" of who it speaks to is based on feeding input in and entailment out. That is "awareness" and "conscious".

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-24 Thread johnrose
Possible correction here, this is modeling consciousness assuming everything is conscious, "panpsychism" is it? I mentioned pondering pure randomness. This might not be right it might be when pondering pure nothingness. Would pure nothingness have a consciousness of everything or pure randomnes

RE: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-24 Thread John Rose
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Mahoney > > So the hard problem of consciousness is solved. Rats have a thalamus which > controls whether they are in a conscious state or asleep. > > John, is that what you meant by consciousness? Matt, Not sure about the hard problem here but a rat w

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-24 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
ield of reality. It needs orientation. From: immortal.discover...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2019 09:39 To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings Sentiment detection, human-written detection, danger detection, there's infinite det

RE: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-24 Thread John Rose
> Matt, > > Not sure about the hard problem here but a rat would have far less > consciousness when sleeping that is for sure 😊 > > Why? Think about the communication model with other objects/agents. > > John Although... I have to say that sometimes when I'm sleeping, lucid dreaming or whateve

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-24 Thread keghnfeem
 The human mind builds many temporal patterns and pick the best one. Since wet neurons are so  slow. Also the human brain build many temporal patterns that will occur or could occur if predicted  patterns fails. Also, the brain records everything, so when we sleep complex algorithms are brought 

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-25 Thread johnrose
On Saturday, August 24, 2019, at 11:15 AM, keghnfeem wrote: > The human mind builds many temporal patterns and pick the best one. Since wet > neurons are so  > slow. Also the human brain build many temporal patterns that will occur or > could occur if predicted  > patterns fails. Also, the brain

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-25 Thread immortal . discoveries
@NT Attention Is All You Need https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M4cc29af1f6399bd26e529172/consciointelligent-thinkings -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M4a48a69

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-25 Thread keghnfeem
I have a complete agi model that is a conscious machine and can generate symbols using neural  networks. Here are two high end scientist using my work.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6MB-ZgPcNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBKEaJtc8dU   And the greatest paper of are time: https://www.acad

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-25 Thread johnrose
On Friday, August 23, 2019, at 9:57 PM, keghnfeem wrote: > Consciousness is Memory: > https://vimeo.com/98785998 Uhm, I was thinking that intelligence is memory. Consciousness is now.  Intelligence is what comes before and after now. Could be wrong though I guess... life is a recording that can

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread Brett N Martensen
*Intelligence* has been defined in many ways, including: the capacity for logic , understanding , self-awareness , learning , e

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread johnrose
Intelligence, Memory, Consciousness for AGI is a very nice 3 tuple: AGI = {I,C,M} Any missing elements? John -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M4a0bc51d34f8bb88282cda4c Delivery

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread immortal . discoveries
Encoding information, remembering information, decoding information, paying attention to context, prediction forecast, loop back to step 1, is the main gist of it. This has generation, feedback, and adapting temporal patterns. -- Artificial General Intellig

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread johnrose
On Monday, August 26, 2019, at 7:44 AM, immortal.discoveries wrote: > Encoding information, remembering information, decoding information, paying > attention to context, prediction forecast, loop back to step 1, is the main > gist of it. This has generation, feedback, and adapting temporal patter

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread Stefan Reich via AGI
Is all this discussion leading anywhere? On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 14:00, wrote: > On Monday, August 26, 2019, at 7:44 AM, immortal.discoveries wrote: > > Encoding information, remembering information, decoding information, > paying attention to context, prediction forecast, loop back to step 1, is

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread johnrose
On Monday, August 26, 2019, at 8:04 AM, Stefan Reich wrote: > Is all this discussion leading anywhere? Yes, it's increasing C. John -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M7d3054ff81a8

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread Matt Mahoney
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 8:05 AM Stefan Reich via AGI wrote: Is all this discussion leading anywhere? No. Consciousness is an irrelevant distraction to anyone doing serious work in AGI. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.to

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread keghnfeem
AGI will not work unless there is some form of consciousness system in place. In deep learning it is  called a attention network, and they are coming on strong on the latest supervised NN's. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https:/

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread WriterOfMinds
Attention/focus is not the type of consciousness that Matt is talking about. Maybe some more specific terms will help clear things up. "What it feels like to think" or "the sum of all a being's qualia" can be called phenomenal consciousness. I don't think this type of consciousness is either ne

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-26 Thread keghnfeem
 There are my types of consciousness. There is insect, lizard, mouse, primate, and human.   And there is different forms of consciousness for every species of lizard and so on.  With in machine consciousness, for my AGI, there will different types of machine consciousness  for each other types

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread johnrose
I was expressing panpsychist mathematical modeling with consciousness as Universal Communication Protocol and Occupying Representation in case you didn't notice. This has much overlap on other AI fields... kegineem we may have some similar ideas I see you have something called a Visual Alphabet

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
I believe consciousness doesn't exist for many, many, reasons, ex. physics, our brain being a meta ball from the womb, learned cues, etc. I am purely a robot from evolution, with no life. The moment you hear that you fear that and want to feel more special, it's like buying bible movies as a foo

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread johnrose
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 7:51 AM, immortal.discoveries wrote: > I believe consciousness doesn't exist for many, many, reasons, ex. physics, > our brain being a meta ball from the womb, learned cues, etc. I am purely a > robot from evolution, with no life. The moment you hear that you fear

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
Yes as I said, consciousness means other things for real, the uses are there, just not any magic, only misunderstandings. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-Me83daaccee42bd3ff4696bee

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread Stefan Reich via AGI
Please point me to the code being written as a result of this talk then :-) On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 22:21, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 8:05 AM Stefan Reich via AGI > wrote: > > Is all this discussion leading anywhere? > > No. Consciousness is an irrelevant distraction to anyo

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread keghnfeem
Thanks John. Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?: https://theconversation.com/could-consciousness-all-come-down-to-the-way-things-vibrate-103070 The visual alphabet 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6MB-ZgPcNg Is Your Consciousness Just A Bunch Of Vibrations? | A

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread johnrose
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Stefan Reich wrote: > Please point me to the code being written as a result of this talk then :-) Stefan, There are other loosely "related" component pieces for research that are present in various projects that exist that have some publicly shareable cod

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread keghnfeem
Network of Networks — A Neural-Symbolic Approach to Inverse-Graphics: https://towardsdatascience.com/network-of-networks-a-neural-symbolic-approach-to-inverse-graphics-acf3998ab3d  Here is some. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: htt

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread Matt Mahoney
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 9:30 AM Stefan Reich via AGI wrote: Please point me to the code being written as a result of this talk then :-) http://mattmahoney.net/autobliss.txt Actually I wrote it in response to this conversation in 2007 because consciousness is a topic that just won't die. The progr

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
:-) "Is Your Consciousness Just A Bunch Of Vibrations? | Answers With Joe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GE5M6F8I18 For cavemen laymen, that answer is quiet accurately well. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread johnrose
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > It says "ouch" and it modifies its behavior to avoid negative stimuli. Too > much torture will kill it. This corny gimmick chatbot is so Mentifexian. You should convert it to JavaScript and get it integrated over there with a button

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
Dropping the 'consciousness' word, that video I linked above is actually hit on. Let me explain. In the middle of the video, he mentioned wave synchronization - the brain has signals propagating around - please see this video below to see what the man has meant. In the brain, the connections st

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
Once you read that, I have a further note: The learning, and decision planning cycles, comes to equilibrium and you only get a tiny bit more for the same compute, so not worth it at some given point, as seen in those metronomes. Also, equilibrium may escape pit hole traps if all the cells can si

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
By "short term memory" I mean the working train of thoughts, looping, like GPT-2's Attention system in the Transformer architecture. Paying attention to context updates the attention weights, then it iterates, having a new context. So while Glove equalizes, Attention equalizes too. Your though-t

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
(The short term Attention comes to equilibrium with your knowledgebase.) -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-Mfb84f161c988fdd93f25549b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups

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2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
And, I like what a YouTube comment said: "It's just a closed model to demonstrate it faster.  We see this kind of synchronization with humans too.  You live in a certain area among Christians, you're likely to become one too.  Live in an area of hindus?  Guess what you're likely to be.  Nazi Ger

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
(the metronomes on the table) -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-Me104603deb8b488564e7265d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
Or, possibly you work for a goo amount of time, then take breaks to let your global long term memory "learn", like Glove does. That way your Attention thought train can get past any stumps. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://ag

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
Dreaming is simulating, like GPT-2 does. And it can learn while doing that in Attention. But in Long term memory, in the midnight subconscious time if not all the time, learning also happens without 'you' thinking and seeing the discovery occur and laugh at the rewarding relation. The difference

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
When I say "synchronization makes you propagate signals farther faster", take for example having learnt the piano or English  alphabet - phrases are made from word parts made from letter parts and Glove relations are formed using past Glove relations. These bridges are built on each other, and t

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
If you shake a bucket of rocks, they will fall and take up less volume, you let the matter do the calculations on their own. This is indeed similar to the Self-Attention system in the Transformer architecture, let me get a picture: -- Artificial General Int

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
https://www.google.ca/search?q=transformer+attention+google&hl=en-CA&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=itp:animated&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqpcOY8qTkAhUHeKwKHfpAArkQpwUIJA&biw=1280&bih=874&dpr=1#imgrc=vUB9f1gtXwXGFM: https://www.google.ca/search?sa=G&hl=en-CA&q=screenshot&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSkwEJog8Ip4ErUGAahwEL

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
This is done not just in Glove, but in entailment and segmentation tasks. And it is done in your attentive short term thinking area, and in your global unguided subconscious, for when you pay attention to the correct related context during translation and entailment being used to do entailment.

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
I have also replicated the amazing GPT-2 in raw with no training. I know fully how it works. I will show yous, soon. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M0badc2b8f60eb84a1eec385b Deli

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
This attention system is also done in cells, on DNA translation encoding/decoding and for repairs of errors and signaling growth specialization of new types of cell differentiation. It works on all levels, cities to cells, even wound healing, because it is information repair and Generative emerg

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-27 Thread immortal . discoveries
You can see GPT-2 can translate, then entail. It can repair bad words to better encodings before entailment attention. It can inject words technically. This can repair sentences, see what I mean? -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: http

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 10:01 AM, keghnfeem wrote: > The visual alphabet 2.0: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6MB-ZgPcNg > I watched most of this excellent presentation but was waiting for resultant symbol mechanics and dynamics. The structure of the structure extracted and how th

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 11:26 PM, immortal.discoveries wrote: > Dropping the 'consciousness' word, that video I linked above is actually hit > on. Let me explain. In the middle of the video, he mentioned wave > synchronization - the brain has signals propagating around - please see this

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Monday, August 26, 2019, at 5:25 PM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > "What it feels like to think" or "the sum of all a being's qualia" can be > called phenomenal consciousness. I don't think this type of consciousness is > either necessary or sufficient for AGI. If you have an explicit goal of > crea

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread WriterOfMinds
That is not what qualia are.  Qualia are incommunicable and private. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M100a6fbb04132f410d7de3d6 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 8:44 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > That is not what qualia are.  Qualia are incommunicable and private. As Matt would say: printf("Ouch!\n"); John -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
mpirically resolve the 'ambiguity' problem first. Else, it would result in (or take form as) a consciousness-challenged dumb device, like most computers still are today. From: WriterOfMinds Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:44 To: AGI S

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Nanograte Knowledge Technologies wrote: > Any generalized system relying on the random, subjective input value of > qualia would give rise to the systems constraint of ambiguity. Therefore, as > a policy, all subjectively-derived data would introduce a

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread Secretary of Trades
clrscr(); On 28.08.2019 16:03, johnr...@polyplexic.com wrote: On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 8:44 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote: That is not what qualia are. Qualia are incommunicable and private. As Matt would say: printf("Ouch!\n"); John *Artificial General Intelligence List

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread Secretary of Trades
https://philpapers.org/archive/CHATMO-32.pdf#page=50 On 28.08.2019 22:19, Secretary of Trades wrote: clrscr(); On 28.08.2019 16:03, johnr...@polyplexic.com wrote: On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 8:44 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote: That is not what qualia are. Qualia are incommunicable and pr

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 3:35 PM, Secretary of Trades wrote: > https://philpapers.org/archive/CHATMO-32.pdf#page=50 Blah blah blah. >From AGI perspective we are interested in the multi-agent computational >advantages in distributed systems that consciousness (or by other names) >facili

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread WriterOfMinds
Are you sure you wouldn't be better served by calling your ideas some other names than "consciousness" and "qualia," then?  We're all getting "hung-up on" the concepts that those terms actually refer to.  I do not see how communication protocols have anything to do with consciousness as it is us

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 4:07 PM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > Are you sure you wouldn't be better served by calling your ideas some other > names than "consciousness" and "qualia," then?  We're all getting "hung-up > on" the concepts that those terms actually refer to.  Good question. That'

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread WriterOfMinds
People can only communicate their conscious experiences by analogy. When you say "I'm in pain," you're not actually describing your experience; you're encouraging me to remember how I felt the last time *I* was in pain, and to assume you feel the same way. We have no way of really knowing whethe

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 5:09 PM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > People can only communicate their conscious experiences by analogy. When you > say "I'm in pain," you're not actually describing your experience; you're > encouraging me to remember how I felt the last time *I* was in pain, and to

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread WriterOfMinds
"You don’t know my qualia on red ... We may never know that your green is my red." Great, seems like we've reached agreement on something. When we communicate with words like "red," we're really communicating about the frequency of light. I would argue that we are not communicating our qualia to

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread johnrose
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 6:49 PM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > Great, seems like we've reached agreement on something. > When we communicate with words like "red," we're really communicating about > the frequency of light. I would argue that we are not communicating our > qualia to each other.

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
processor, the resident operating system, and a peripheral device. It should be interesting. From: johnr...@polyplexic.com Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:06 To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings On Wednesday, August 28, 2019,

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-28 Thread WriterOfMinds
Cool, but ... I maintain that none of this is about consciousness.  Knowledge representation, abstraction and compression via symbolism, communication of structure, common protocols and standards for describing physical phenomena ... these are all intelligence tasks. Specifically, the communicat

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
quot; tests for vetting it as science could be replaced by a suitably-representative body of reviewing scientists who are accredited in the limitations of subjective, scientific observation. From: WriterOfMinds Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:49 To: AGI Sub

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread johnrose
On Thursday, August 29, 2019, at 1:49 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > Like I said when I first posted on this thread, phenomenal consciousness is > neither necessary nor sufficient for an intelligent system. This is the premise that you are misguided by. Who is building the intelligent systems? Grunt

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread johnrose
On Thursday, August 29, 2019, at 6:32 AM, Nanograte Knowledge Technologies wrote: > Qualia are communicable. > As such, I propose a new research methodology, which pertains to one-off > valid and reliable experimentation when dealing with the "unseen". The > "public" and repeat" tests for vettin

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread johnrose
Clarified: AGI={I,C,M,PSI}={I,UCP+OR,M,BB}; BB=Black Box John -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M3849c56767c291ea6a534cf9 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subs

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread Matt Mahoney
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 7:39 AM wrote: > On Thursday, August 29, 2019, at 1:49 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote: > > Like I said when I first posted on this thread, phenomenal consciousness > is neither necessary nor sufficient for an intelligent system. > > > This is the premise that you are misguided by.

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread johnrose
On Thursday, August 29, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Phenomenal consciousness is what thinking feels like. This feeling evolved > because it motivates you to not die and let those feelings stop. It doesn't > require any new physics. It can be explained entirely by neural computation.

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread immortal . discoveries
@Matt We think the same -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-Mca07bd6601dd56a5ab108f57 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-08-29 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
John For once, I fully agree with you. This is perhaps not just a part of the problem (issue), but probably one of the biggest problems facing general, AGI progress. " Part of the issue here is that engineers particularly software cannot wait for science in many cases." But, I strongly disagre

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-01 Thread johnrose
On Friday, August 30, 2019, at 2:31 AM, Nanograte Knowledge Technologies wrote: > But, I strongly disagree with the following statement, for it contains an > inherent contradiction. > > "It is allowed to break physics or invent new ones in a virtual world." > > No, they should not be allowed

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-02 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
l. I suppose, it'll all end in a static, spot of white light, wouldn't it? Just as it began. Ask yourself this; would an AGI entity be having this kind of discussion, and if so, how would it flow? From: johnr...@polyplexic.com Sent: Sunday, 01 S

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-02 Thread Matt Mahoney
> ---------- > *From:* johnr...@polyplexic.com > *Sent:* Sunday, 01 September 2019 23:54 > *To:* AGI > *Subject:* Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings > > On Friday, August 30, 2019, at 2:31 AM, Nanograte Knowledge Technologies > wrote: > > But,

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-02 Thread immortal . discoveries
Thought isn't faster than light, brain waves don't move that fast. And humans are much slower than computers doing tasks. This is part of our society, is it true. In the 4 given statements Matt gave, either we are in a sim or in the base physics. -- Artif

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-02 Thread immortal . discoveries
Typo - *it is true. -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d48db-M1b1996cd3bd777d6b2af45f0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-03 Thread johnrose
Our minds are simulating most everything. We can imagine a model where a spaceship goes from Earth to Pluto in 1 second virtually breaking the speed of light (we know it isn't really). My thoughts were that consciousness is the one piece of the mind that isn't a model or a simulation. And for a

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-03 Thread johnrose
Qualia flow, the dots are qualia :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9vjEB1S2Y Transform into text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFR8FTXOM4 John -- Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T41ac13a64c3d4

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-03 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
an acceptable process for doing so. This is t From: Matt Mahoney Sent: Monday, 02 September 2019 22:39 To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings If we are living in a simulation then of course anything is possible. It isn't a law tha

Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings

2019-09-03 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
ld be at zero-point energy. Possibility would exist there. From: Matt Mahoney Sent: Monday, 02 September 2019 22:39 To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Re: ConscioIntelligent Thinkings If we are living in a simulation then of course anything is possible. It isn't