Inspirations for AI

• economic automation
• singularity
• consciousness

Definitinitions

• cogsci: neuroscience, neuro-x(biology, physiology, computational __, etc), psychology, philosophy, AI
  • computational neuroscience => perceptron
  • frank rosenblatt, warren McCulloche, walter pitts - all brain guys (neurobiology, neurophysiology, computational neuroscience respectively)
• intelligence (computation) vs consciousness (soul); intelligence in scale (animals); brain in scale; consciousness in scale?
• perception, self-identity, memory, attention; (self reflection is just a human-special component)
• awereness (qualia / sentience / subjective experience); modified by attention? (driving, dreams, coma)
• missing: emotions; just built-in goal reinforcemer. plus we don't know how machines experience reinforcement (floor-is-lava)

Hard vs soft problem

• soft problem = neuroscience
• hard problem = philosophy
  • dualism: pineal gland, issue with physical->metaphysical; society of mind / connected intelligences
  • maybe definitively non-science, since subjective
  • maybe matter of time; phil is pre-science at each juncture; science turns magic => known (sickness). Either hard problem is unscientific (phil) or around the corner

Emergence (emergent property)

Computational theory of mind

• intelligence & consciousness connected / same
• think: word2vec = understanding?
• consciousness in scale; does this mean every layer has its own consciousness? Panpsychism. I don't know - just concerned with that which does exhibit intelligence
• integrated information theory
• freewill; conscious / awareness center activated after decision made; all the information in place before whole ; westworld

Biological plausibility

• planes, brains
• sans bio-plaus, functionalism; zombies; turing test; searle's chinese room