Hi everyone, Two hundred years from now -- when consciousness is no longer based on destructible, gooey meat, but on other substrates -- our silicon (or other...
bruno_von_lederhosen@...
Sep 4, 2001 8:23 am
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If you were able to exactly replicate my mind into another medium, even another identical human body - is that me ? What if my same consciousness is replicated...
keines
keines@...
Sep 4, 2001 1:07 pm
703
Bruno, you old lederhoser you! ... Darryl ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5195-2001Aug27.html ... ...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:56 pm
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Gene: If you did not have your own thoughts, you would have nothing to say. If Barry were not doing worthwhile work, he would have nothing to say. You two...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:59 pm
705
Interestingly, Gene, I am using a system that employs chaos theory, though not in the way you seem to. I build Autonomous Agents that do simple day trading...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:00 pm
706
Keines: The answer would be yes. Were it possible, all of the replications would be you for awhile. However, each of them would immediatly begin their own...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:01 pm
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Hi Darryl, I don't see how the answer would be yes. An exact, instant-replica of me is only a copy. The replica would mistakenly think it was the original...
keines
keines@...
Sep 5, 2001 3:11 am
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In that case I would look foreward to this dialog, i will email you the address at which i can be contacted. ... === message truncated === ===== share and...
Gene Foxwell
wizard_of_frozzbozz@...
Sep 7, 2001 3:57 pm
709
Thanks and good luck. Darryl ... === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 8, 2001 11:23 pm
710
I express here my feelings of deep sorrow for the losses suffered by people in the insane terrorist attacks against the USA perpetrated last Tuesday. September...
Jorge Aveleira
jorvel@...
Sep 15, 2001 8:29 pm
711
Here http://www.isacat.net/2001/09/books.htm is a list of books (with brief reviews) that I have found useful in my study. If anyone has a scraper that can...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 20, 2001 8:37 pm
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This particular post is more theory then applied, so for those of you who hate theory, you get to skip this, for the rest, this is my approach. First, what we...
Gene Foxwell
wizard_of_frozzbozz@...
Sep 21, 2001 1:02 am
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So let's recap from the last post, we now have two atoms for the system: f(x) -> the output of any given neuron r(x) -> the wieght function of any given neuron...
Gene Foxwell
wizard_of_frozzbozz@...
Sep 21, 2001 1:20 pm
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... We know that there is activity in the brain (and elsewhere) that appears to behave in a distributed, interconnected fashion, and so it is reasonable to ...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 21, 2001 4:09 pm
715
... You didn't really say what these were, but I'll try and bear with you... ... Yes, you can say that again. It would have been easier for you to have given a...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 21, 2001 4:09 pm
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r(x) is a symbol, this means that it can't be more complex then this, becuase if it is, r(x) represents that complexity. And the main components of the mind...
Gene Foxwell
wizard_of_frozzbozz@...
Sep 21, 2001 9:03 pm
717
Actually, I know quite alot about neuron networks, which is to say multiple different attempts have been made with multiple different functions used but no one...
Gene Foxwell
wizard_of_frozzbozz@...
Sep 21, 2001 9:19 pm
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Anyway, since in prevous posts I've already made myself sound ludricrous (I read them over while reading Danny's responses) I will point out the hardest part...
Gene Foxwell
wizard_of_frozzbozz@...
Sep 21, 2001 9:27 pm
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Gene, I have never thought of you or your posts as ludicrous. But mathematics and mathematical proofs have nothing to do with either Intelligence or...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 21, 2001 10:22 pm
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... I'll agree there - it's just as the nearest devil's advocate, it's my duty to slag off anything that doesn't quite manage to find the Holy Grail. BTW, with...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 21, 2001 11:23 pm
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Danny: The term "Intelligence" seems to refer to the several kinds of abstract reasoning. Specific research in this area may well benefit from mathematics and...
Darryl Turner
darryl_turner@...
Sep 22, 2001 3:45 pm
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Hi Darryl, ... Hmm - I'll have to think about this a bit more, it's pretty close to the connectionist vs knowledgebase argument - on one level things such as...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 22, 2001 6:34 pm
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How does one unsubscribe? TIW, Felix....
Felix Goldberg
sgefelix@...
Sep 22, 2001 8:40 pm
724
Follow instructions at http://groups.yahoo.com/ Byeee!...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 22, 2001 9:01 pm
725
... Darryl, I agree with the conclusion statement, and here is why; The brain has built-in biases towards doing things the way it does them. It feels that to...
Mark Coffman
mscoffman@...
Sep 22, 2001 11:56 pm
726
What are you going to do when the present DARPA-funded research on quantum computers succeeds and you have a robot in the Whitehouse with a higher ...
Party of Citizens
citizens@...
Sep 23, 2001 8:15 pm
727
... Congratulate DARPA for building yet another calculator... =P -- The Linux developer community operates like an anthill. Thousands of autonomous agents...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
Sep 23, 2001 8:17 pm
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Hi Mark, ... Rather than biases towards doing things in another way than which it does them? ... 1. On what grounds do you make these claims (about what the...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 23, 2001 10:08 pm
729
... Vote for him?...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
Sep 23, 2001 10:08 pm
730
... superhuman knowledge and superhuman learning ability. By the 2012 US Election the real power in the Whitehouse will be a robot ||||| ... Who would win in a...
