Re: [sl4] Re: goals of AI... non physical components of mind != soul

From: Toby Weston (lordlobster@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 27 2009 - 16:12:41 MST


Sl4 =

What is consciousness?
AND
Can we control hyper inteligence?

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Fluff

On 27 Nov 2009, at 15:23, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mu In Taiwan wrote:
> > Scientists today announced compelling proof that the universe is
> infinite; and that consequently there are an infinite number of you
> on identical planet earths spaced out around the universe. Some are
> younger, some are stronger, some are healthier and some are more
> intelligent.
> >
> > Knowing this, how do you feel about shooting yourself?
>
> If your memories were different, you wouldn't know. People don't
> remember what they forget. If you had memories of growing up in a
> different culture and language, knowing different people and even a
> different body with perhaps a different sex at a different time in
> history, you would not be aware of any difference. So it should not
> matter if you were a different person. I know for a fact that there
> are different people already in existence. (At least that is what I
> believe according to the model my mind has of the outside world that
> enables me to predict what bits will next be input to my mind.
> Although for all I know, my mind might actually be a simulation run
> in a world so strange that space, time, and matter are meaningless,
> abstract concepts, and that no other people exist).
>
> But to answer your question, I would want to preserve my memories
> regardless of what they were. It's not rational. It's just the way
> I'm programmed. All of the people that were programmed differently
> have already died.
>
>
> -- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
>
>
> From: Mu In Taiwan <mu.in.taiwan@gmail.com>
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Sent: Wed, November 25, 2009 11:08:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [sl4] Re: goals of AI... non physical components of
> mind != soul
>
> So is this "you"? Knowing you have a realistic copy, perhaps in a
> younger, stronger, and healthier body and perhaps with a more
> intelligent but artificial brain, how do you feel about shooting
> yourself?
> -----
>
> Scientists today announced compelling proof that the universe is
> infinite; and that consequently there are an infinite number of you
> on identical planet earths spaced out around the universe. Some are
> younger, some are stronger, some are healthier and some are more
> intelligent.
>
> Knowing this, how do you feel about shooting yourself?



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