On 04 Feb 2014, at 00:42, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/3/2014 3:19 PM, David Nyman wrote:
On 3 February 2014 23:08, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
I think that when we can "build a general AI to specification"
that will be the end of the "hard problem" of consciousness.
Do you mean FAPP, or do you personally take the view that there is
no remainder problem of consciousness (to coin an alternative
moniker for the HP)?
That's hard to say. I think conscious thought will be found to a
class of thoughts and there will be degrees of consciousness and it
will be complicated and the "Hard Problem" will be seen to have been
overly simplistic. It may have an answer, like "If it can do
induction or Cantor diagonalization it's conscious.", but that may
be only one kind of consciousness and probably not the most
interesting.
Nice, PA and ZF are machines which can already do induction and
diagonalization. But I am OK, they are conscious, as much as you and
me. (I ted to believe in this, but that implies STRONG AI, and I
cant' be sure of course, even with comp).
Bruno
Brent
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