From: Samantha Atkins (sjatkins@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2008 - 04:48:32 MDT
Matt Mahoney wrote:
> --- Stuart Armstrong <dragondreaming@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> Correct, many people believe that AGI is impossible within the next 50
>>> years,
>>>
>> I'm virtually one of those - I think it is very unlikely to have AGI
>> in the next 50 years (and always have) because I feel we don't have a
>> theory of consciousness (most versions I know are either mathematical
>> models that do not capture our current intuitive ideas, or boil down
>> to "we'll know it when we see it").
>>
>
> There is no theory of consciousness because there is no such thing. But there
> is a universal human belief in consciousness. Maybe we need a theory to
> explain why this belief evolved.
>
Depending on your definition of the term you may or may not be
correct. By some notions of 'consciousness' such as growing out of
reflective intelligence mirroring/modeling self and other,
'consciousness' or self-awareness is a perfectly valid and natural
development. If this is so then I would expect any intelligence with a
sufficiently developed "theory of mind" and the need to model self
relative to others would seem to believe in something very much like
this nebulous "consciousness".
- samantha
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