wtf wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 3:39 am
PeteOlcott wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 3:08 am
Almost all that needs be done to create the functional equivalent of a human
is connect together a large set of ideas formalized in a directed acyclic graph.
The connection between ideas <is> the set of human knowledge.
And consciousness, intentionality, desire, will, emotion, qualia, experience arise from that?
I wouldn't even agree that you can mimic the behavioral aspects of a mind like that. Where would creativity for new ideas come from? If you look at the history of ideas you'll find that every new idea breaks the existing system of logical belief. Paradigm shifts and all that. The old geniuses die off and new ones accept radical new ways of thinking.
But to claim that you can duplicate every function of the mind, when in fact subjective experience is the mind's most vital function --
it's defining function I'd say --is quite a claim indeed.
Have you worked out the details? I'm certainly curious.
I don't mean the aesthetics of the behavior of people with emotions.
What I mean is that anything that can be accomplished by a thinking human
mind could be accomplished by a software mind. Figuring out the best
approach to win a supreme court case. Figuring out how to cure cancer.
All the aesthetics can also be added so that this software mind will be totally
indistinguishable from a living mind, but, we first have to conquer thinking,
reasoning and creating before delving into aesthetics. Creating turns out to
have an algorithm, the same algorithm that I used to figure out how to solve
the halting problem would provide creativity to the software mind.