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C00002 00002 MY VIEWS CONCERNING ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
C00006 00003 The most serious stumbling block
C00007 00004 II. A. Scenerio of a Theory of Natural Intelligence.
C00009 00005 II. B. Scenerio of a Theory of Artificial Intelligence.
C00010 00006 II. C. Scenerio of a Theory of Human Intelligence.
C00012 00007 III. Scenerio of a National Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
C00013 00008 IV. Artificial Intelligence and the Stanford A.I. Lab
C00014 00009 V. Mechanistic view of Mysticism.
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MY VIEWS CONCERNING ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Bruce G. Baumgart
I. A Mechanistic Weltanschauung.
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The following premises outline an extreme mechanistic view of
mind, matter, machines and men combined with an optimistic view of
the future of science, technology and society.
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1. I believe that there is a knowable physical explaination to the
phenomena of counsciousness.
2. I believe that computers can be programmed to be counscious in
much the way that humans are couscious and better.
3. I believe that a result of the discovery of an explaination of
consciousness will be the transcendence of humanity into a new
evolution of intellectual entities.
4. I believe that the dangers of Faust, Frankenstein, 1984, Future
Shock, the Terminal Man, the Six Million Dollar Man and a Luddite
Rebellion are real but overestimated.
5. I believe that medicine will soon (in 1 to 200 years) stumble into
some interim cure for death (by means of body transplants, hormone
controls, genetic controls or whatever) that will allow a human half
life of around one thousand years.
6. I believe that men will not suddenly be replaced by robots, but
that they will augment themselves until the distinction between
biological intellectual entities and non-bio intellectual entities
becomes moot.
7. I believe that in principle it is possible to duplicate a person
by totally encoding the mind, personality and soul on some suitable
media to run on some suitable intrepreter.
8. I believe that the individualization of mind is an artifact of
an evolution (sex, death and selection of the species) which created
individuals.
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The most serious stumbling block
further (and perhaps final)
demythologization of man
Coperican and Darwin theories
(opponents of the latter, even to this day,
come to my door with leaflets)
potentially requires a "diminished" view of the
value of the life of an individual
II. A. Scenerio of a Theory of Natural Intelligence.
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Stimulus-Response Level-1 Creatures.
Perceptual Feedback Level-2 Creatures.
Simulated Reality Sync.
Lingusistic Reality Level-X Creatures.
Cybernetic Reality Level-Y Creatures.
Multi Reality Level-Z Creatures.
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Goal-Seeking
Necessities: individual survival
basal ganglia computations
blood pressure, air,
Drives: thrist,
Pain/Pleasure.
Goal-Selection
Learning/Memory
Learning Physical Coordination/ Cerebellum Programming.
Time Sequencing / Circadian
II. B. Scenerio of a Theory of Artificial Intelligence.
An intellectual entity is distinguished from other physical
systems in that it has "memory" which is symbolically "intrepreted"
to determine the "behavior" of the entity. Small animals, some
aircraft, men, computers, groups of people, civilizations and humanity
as a whole are all examples of intellectual entities.
Sub-Systems of an Intellectual Entity:
Computation, Perception, Manipulation,
Locomotion, Reproduction, Communication,
Consciousness
II. C. Scenerio of a Theory of Human Intelligence.
This scenerio depicts human mental physiology and psychology
as a computer system analogy - many have gone down this line of
thinking before - points are scored plausible fiction as well as for
assembling facts.
Size of Memory
Size of Processor
Nature and locations of various kinds of memory
reading the memory - Cerebellum, Cerebrum
writing the memory
stored programs
read only programs
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Elements of Counsciousness...
Awakeness/Sleep
Attention/Job schudeluler
The interupt system - the reticular activating structure.
Elements of Selfhood...
1. Isolation of self in the perceived reality.
(lack of element 1: i.e. feeling of being at one with the universe)
2. self as a physical object
(lack of element 2: i.e. Astral Projection, out of bodiedness,
3. self as a social object (e.g. vis'a'vis first childhood memories)
guilt, responsibility, ego (non-Freudian),
III. Scenerio of a National Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
What would you do (or what could be done) if artificial
intelligence became a top national priority
IV. Artificial Intelligence and the Stanford A.I. Lab
Subtitle: Have I changed or has the Lab changed...
First off, the Lab seemed subjectively "better" in the
good olde days (circa 1969). The machine seemed to respond faster
and the people seemed to form a better commmunity.
That is probably an illusion:
the Rancho Arm never worked right on any given day,
restoring the file system from tape was inconvenient,
GOGAL was a bigger pain than SAIL and although people were fewer
V. Mechanistic view of Mysticism.
Hypnoses
Castenada
Baba Ram Das
Meditation
Lysergic Acid Dyeythalimide