On Mon 4/27/98 21:22 +1000 Keeva Speyer wrote:
> Wim Van Dijck wrote:
>> > I once heard a quite strond argument during some introductory AI
> > classes: computer hardware (neural nets not included) work in
> > algoritms. Conscious minds, such as ours, use procedures (or whatever
> > you want to call it) that are not algoritm based. Computers CAN only
> > use algoritms (at least nowadays) so based on this principle, a
> > computer will never gain consciousness, no matter how big or fast it
> > is.
> Your assuming that consiousness can't be emulated/created via an
> algorithm.
Yes, he is.
> Your also assuming our minds aren't actually one big
> algorith.
Yes, he is.
> Also neural nets as far as I know are usually software based
> on normal hardware, ie. work on an algorithm.
OK.
> Anyway isn't an algorithm
> just a system that takes input, follows a series of steps and usually
> creates output. It is arguable that the neural links in our minds are
> the steps.
The question a series of steps raises is: From what to what?
> Therefore our mind may be one big algorithm.
>Doubtful. Very doubtful. See further
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/antenna.htm and
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/influenc.htm
--
Alan
Within the sub-light-speed spacetime continuum of our synergistic
material universe, higher order information produced in the
transcendent continuum of conscious energies devolves and directs
both the organization and the evolution of lower order aggregations
of energy called matter.
Consciousness, Physics and the Holographic Paradigm:
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/intro.htm
