Gene Kofman (its@icanect.net)
Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:02:20 +0100
Thank you, Bo for another recap.
Bodvar wrote:
> What it boils down to is that you (all?) want an Artificial
> Intelligence to match the human INTELLECT, but this cannot be
> achieved because the latter builds on human Society.
....
> (according to Pirsig culture is Intellect's manifestation).
....
>But this is
> another huge thread of its own.
I think, it would be a very interesting thread, but I'm not ready to pick
on it just now. I just tend to believe that we could program social
patterns into AI. Why, at least in theory, could not we create an
artificial
brain and teach/indoctrinate it the same way we socialize our children. Is
there something in the newly created brain besides the biological and
inorganic patterns? May be we should call *all* intelligence artificial
because it's manmade ;-).
Bodvar wrote:
> A Magnus Berg aware of his loneliness would soon loose his
> mind (literally), or he would join an animal society. Remember the
> wolf-boy incident?
Not necessarily. Magnus could still retain social patterns and intellectual
on top of them. I think, we all chatter inside our heads, constantly
explaining what we already know. That would be the only case when such
chatter served some more or less clear purpose. But, that's another thread
too. In addition, that lone survivor's mind will protect itself by
relentlessly believing in existence of other survivors and, by doing that,
it'll keep the Society from extinction.
Gene.
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