Since I assume Ben, as well as a lot of the rest of us, want the AGI
movement to receive respectability in the academic and particularly in the
funding community, it is probably best that other than brain-science- or
AGI-focused discussions of the effects of drugs should not become too common
on
I think psychedelics and the psychedelic experience are much more
complicated than most people realize and you only go into a small instance
of their complexity. However I'm not sure how useful they will be in trying
to build intelligence on a computer. Computers can't take psychedelics,
they are like a microscope or a telescope for the mind.
Meant to read as for the study of the mind. What I am trying to get
at is the value of brain-change to brain design...
On 11/24/08, Eric Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a really good avenue of discussion for me. Mind-changing
This is a really good avenue of discussion for me. Mind-changing
experiences are fully within my conversational comfort zone. I
actually think psychedelics are very nearly on topic for the AGI list
inasmuch as they are like a microscope or a telescope for the mind.
They produce new points of view
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I assume Ben, as well as a lot of the rest of us, want the AGI
movement to receive respectability in the academic and particularly in the
funding community, it is probably best that other than brain-science- or
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I think psychedelics and the psychedelic experience are much more
complicated than most people realize and you only go into a small instance
of their complexity. However I'm not sure how useful
by
the momentous changes that face us.
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Eric Burton wrote:
This is a really good avenue of discussion for me.
snip
You'all probably should join rec.drugs.psychedelic
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.drugs.psychedelic/topics
People are still posting there, so the black helicopters haven't taken
Ed Porter wrote:
Since I assume Ben, as well as a lot of the rest of us, want the AGI
movement to receive respectability in the academic and particularly in the
funding community, it is probably best that other than brain-science- or
AGI-focused discussions of the effects of drugs should not
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Eric Burton wrote:
This is a really good avenue of discussion for me.
snip
You'all probably should join
.
If you have communicable evidence to the contrary, please enlighten me.
Ed Porter
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From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I assume Ben, as well as a lot
subjectively experience it, it is real in a
certain, very important to us, sense.
Ed Porter
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