Re: R&M's "memory illusions" and functional verbal response classes

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:40:55 GMT

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:14:37 -0300, "Sergio Navega"
<snavega@intelliwise.com> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>"Eray Ozkural exa" <erayo@bilkent.edu.tr> escreveu na mensagem
>news:fa69ae35.0407281540.73b6a0d@posting.google.com...
>>
>> However, these traits might be necessary sideeffects of sufficiently
>> advanced intelligence (you can think of this as a physicist POV), ie.
>> emergent properties. Many of these traits may have something to do
>> with
>> a. memory
>> b. predictive models
>> c. utility functions
>>
>> in other words, computational properties of the cognitive
>> architecture. So, I don't think the theory is irrelevant to our
>> understanding of consciousness. There are many theories in psychology
>> and linguistics that are not computational, those are, I think, much
>> worse!
>>
>
>In fact, I was trying to suggest almost the opposite. I don't think
>that the study of consciousness is relevant to the understanding of
>biological and artificial intelligence. From time to time I browse
>some papers about consciousness, and I find most of them speculative
>and frequently unrelated to the goal of intelligent artifacts.

How is it that you find the study of consciousness irrelevant to an
understanding of biological and artificial intelligence? Presumably
biological intelligence begets consciousness. Even if we don't fully
or exactly understand what the terms intelligence and consciousness
denote in strict mechanical terms, both arise in biological organisms.

Regards - Lester

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