Re: The Hard Problem for Behaviorists

From: Curt Welch (curt_at_kcwc.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: 22 Oct 2004 23:55:41 GMT

Wolf Kirchmeir <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Curt Welch wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >
> > Ok, but that's not saying much about what subjective processes actually
> > are which is what we need to figure out.
> >
> >
> Why do we need to figure out subjective processes? There seems to me to
> be no necessary connection between subjective processes and intelligence
> (in any of its several definitions that link it to reasoning). On the
> contrary, if the average human is a good example of what happens when
> subjectivity is cooupled with reasoning, subjectivity is something we'd
> want to avoid in machines... :-)

Well, I want to build a machine. And Lester seems to be saying if we build
an intelligent machine, it will have to emulate, or be (?), a "subjective
processes". So if that's what the machine I want to build is, it seems
useful for me to find out what Lester thinks I need to build.

I've got very strong ideas about what type of machine I think I need to
build. And so far, I haven't been able to match up my understanding to
his. But maybe there's something Lester sees that I dont see and which I
will need to see before my machine will ever work. So I'm just exploring
ideas in an attempt to learn new things. 

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