skutvik@online.no
Sat, 4 Oct 1997 03:47:02 +0100
I am in the process of moving to a new house, but seeing that there
has been a certain response to my AI "nagging" I'll submit this
preprepared piece, and will return with a reply to each one early
next week. This is mainly in response to Doug and Magnus.
I don't think what Doug so impressively documented really
addresses the AI issue. Gödel's theorem puts an end to any system's
hope of proving itself, but the plain fact is that Türing did not
manage to come up with a better criterion of intelligence than
this simple test: If one intelligence (a human being) cannot
distinguish between a "program" and another human being (both out of
sight and communicating through print) the conclusion is: THERE IS NO
DIFFERENCE!. Magnus sounds exasperated over his inability to make
himself understood to me, and refers to intuition,fantasy,
inspiration and association as intelligence's hallmarks (I could add
a few more, particularly humour as the most typical human
characteristic), but if also these can be "simulated" how do you tell
that it is artificial? This was Türings problem, and he decided it
couldn't, it's no use appealing to common sense (I just foresee it).
Magnus says that Türing wasen't aware of the Dynamic Quality, but
doesn't DQ reside as comfortably in a digital circuit as in the brain
cell of a human being?
I think life can be faked (as Magnus once called it) and so can
intelligence; it is only "artificial" regarding the material
involved. What if it becomes possible to grow neural tissue? No, we
must keep the Intellect of the MOQ apart from intelligence. Arent
animals smart?
Again. The basic axiom of the Quality idea is that the Subject/Object
division is suspended - along with its offshoots. This MUST have some
PROFOUND impact on our the mind-intellgence-awareness-intellect
complex.
So long.
Bo
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