RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-08 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dr. Matthias Heger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem of consciousness is not only a hard problem because of unknown mechanisms in the brain but it is a problem of finding the DEFINITION of necessary conditions for consciousness. I think, consciousness without intelligence is not

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-08 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dr. Matthias Heger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For general intelligence some components and sub-components of consciousness need to be there and some don't. And some could be replaced with a human operator as in an augmentation-like system. Also some components could be designed

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-01 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Saturday 31 May 2008 10:23:15 pm, Matt Mahoney wrote: Unfortunately AI will make CAPTCHAs useless against spammers. We will need to figure out other methods. I expect that when we have AI, most of the world's computing power is going to be directed at attacking other computers and

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-01 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately AI will make CAPTCHAs useless against spammers. We will need to figure out other methods. I expect that when we have AI, most of the world's computing power is going to be directed at attacking other computers and defending against

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-01 Thread John G. Rose
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are - if I've understood you - talking about the machinery and programming that produce and help to process the movie of consciousness. I'm not in any way denying all that or its complexity. But the first thing is to define and model

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-01 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sun, 6/1/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AI has a long way to go to thwart CAPTCHAs altogether. There are math CAPTCHAs (MAPTCHAs), 3-D CAPTCHAs, image rec CAPTCHAs, audio and I can think of some that are quite difficult for

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-01 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Sun, 6/1/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK How about this. A CAPTCHA that combines human audio and visual illusion that evokes a realtime reaction only in a conscious physical human. Can audio visual illusion be used as a test for consciousness? Could it be used to evoke a

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-06-01 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sun, 6/1/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK How about this. A CAPTCHA that combines human audio and visual illusion that evokes a realtime reaction only in a conscious physical human. Can audio visual illusion be used as a test

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread John G. Rose
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You guys are seriously irritating me. You are talking such rubbish. But it's collective rubbish - the collective *non-sense* of AI. And it occurs partly because our culture doesn't offer a simple definition of consciousness. So let me have a

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What many people call consciousness is qualia, that which distinguishes you from a philosophical zombie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-zombie There is no test for consciousness in this sense, but humans universally believe that they are

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Tintner
John, The reason why people are thinking about all this stuff in terms of maths is because it is not all just fluffy philosophizing you have to have at least minimalistic math models in order to build software. So when you say iTheathre or iMovie I'm thinking bits per send, compression, color

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Sat, 5/31/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in future, there could be impostor agents that act like they have humanlike subjective experience but don't ... and we could uncover them by analyzing their internals... What internal properties of a Turing machine distinguish one

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread John G. Rose
From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If by conscious you mean having a humanlike subjective experience, I suppose that in future we will infer this about intelligent agents via a combination of observation of their behavior, and inspection of their internal construction and

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread John G. Rose
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That's correct. The model of consciousness should be the self [brain- body] watching and physically interacting with the movie [that is in a sense an open movie - rather than on a closed screen - projected all over the world outside, and on the

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Sat, 5/31/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: What internal properties of a Turing machine distinguish one that has subjective experiences from an equivalent machine (implementing the same function) that only pretends to have subjective experience? You're asking

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Sat, 5/31/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't believe you are conscious. I believe you are a zombie. Prove me wrong. I am a zombie. Prove to me that I am not. Otherwise I will accuse you of being conscious. Exactly my

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sat, 5/31/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't believe you are conscious. I believe you are a zombie. Prove me wrong. I am a zombie. Prove to me that I am not.

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread John G. Rose
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] you utterly refused to answer my question re: what is your model? It's not a hard question to start answering - i.e. either you do have some kind of model or you don't. You simply avoided it. Again. I have some models that I feel confident that

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread Mike Tintner
John:When you describe this you have to be careful how much computation your mind is doing and taking for granted. You make many assumptions just by looking at the pic and saying these are signs that this man is conscious. And saying that a handheld TV is some sort of model, ya that's making

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Sat, 5/31/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sat, 5/31/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't believe you are conscious. I believe you are a zombie.

RE: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-29 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consciousness with minimal intelligence may be easier to build than general intelligence. General intelligence is the one that takes the resources. A general consciousness algorithm, one that creates

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-29 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:41 PM, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can the two terms be equivalent? Some may think that they are inseparable, or that one cannot exist without the other, I can understand that perspective. But there is a quantitative relationship between the two. When

Re: [agi] Consciousness vs. Intelligence

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consciousness with minimal intelligence may be easier to build than general intelligence. General intelligence is the one that takes the resources. A general consciousness algorithm, one that creates a consciousness in any environment may be simpler