Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, David, Sorry to have included you in my grumpiness. With your example of Dusty, you engage at precisely the baby-steps level that I seek. I think it helps to start with an evocative particular. First, could we dispense with the Cartesian metaphor of "expression", the pimple-pinching model

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
Glen, This is a test to illustrate somethiing about Gmail to Nick. On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 4:37 PM glen wrote: > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347215003085 > > > > On July 9, 2024 2:04:29 PM PDT, Prof David West > wrote: > >> Maybe I should not be replying, as I do beli

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread Russ Abbott
I missed most of this (and related) threads but am surprised at where this seems to be going. I always associated consciousness with subjective experience and not necessarily with self awareness. The "hard problem of consciousness" is qualia, not self-awareness. No? An AI agent cannot understand la

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread Marcus Daniels
My car turns on its windshield wipers when it is wet. Among the trillions of tokens of a LLM training would include texts on equation of state. These are things that can be related. From: Friam On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:56 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Co

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread steve smith
Nick - I'm glad you acknowledged (in another branch of this thread?) the "grumpiness" aspect of your initiation/participation in this thread.  Your analogy around thought/feeling "expression" and that of pimple popping is in fact very apt if a bit graphic.  I do think many of us want this app

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Steve, The scale of your response alone suggests that it cannot be baby steps. I guess I am proposing a method here, one inn we work outward from an evocative experience to explore our understandings of contraversial concepts, and that we do it in relatively short bursts. *Dusty comes to cuddle

Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

2024-07-11 Thread Jochen Fromm
Please excuse the late response, I was distracted a bit. What is the reason that one or more languages are essential for meta awareness? I guess we all agree that all animals know their environment and are aware of it. This is necessary to move around in it, to find food and to avoid predators.

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread steve smith
Nick - (of course) I've larded up my usual style of response below (maybe only for my own need to "express" the buildup of mental-pus that comes with everything I hear here and elsewhere) but to save you (and anyone else who cares) the burden of parsing a few dozen lines of back-and-forth, I

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

2024-07-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Lol. That’s fine, except for the suspicious promotion Ecological Dual > Fields! > When Dan hears thunder and cuddles with me, I do whisper in his ear ;-) -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Com