Drugs and Artificial Intelligence

[steaks!]

well, if what you're saying is true then this paradox will function as a limit for any AI that we develop, resulting in robots that are unconscious of themselves but still intelligent. surely this would have some uses for us humans.

i still believe however that it is possible to create a genuine conscious AI, however far off we may be at this point. after all, nature created us conscious beings, and so if consciousness is possible, then it is only a matter of time before we create it as well.

and to bring it back to the topic of psychedelics as we are in the psychedelic discussion forum, psychedelics will likely play a part in bringing us closer to realizing that - via the insight gained through personal use as well as the study of the drugs' effects on our minds

 

[azzazza !?]

azzazza, i would argue that the concept "cat" contained within a mind is the sum total of all of this mind's experiences relating to cats.

if it truly were nothing more then a sum of experience the concept would fail to be dynamic. in fact after the first reference "this is cat" the concept would be full. an encouter with a different cat would require a new concept. the conceptualisation requires a division in accidental properties and essential ones. an essential property is never a particular expression, its a universal, and as such it is an idea. it remains somewhat 'vague'. there is no universal cat in existence. in order to come to universals, the particular cat has to be denied as being the concept of cat, and universalized, made into an idea, in order to experience the following cat as an expression of this universal cat.

 

[azzazza !?]

i still believe however that it is possible to create a genuine conscious AI, however far off we may be at this point. after all, nature created us conscious beings, and so if consciousness is possible, then it is only a matter of time before we create it as well.

the best bet for this would be some sort of intergration of a quantum entanglement of being and non-being into quantum computing. i don't really see that happening though, as the quantum properties are required to be representing data, so they could not be a 'nothing' an sich, only represent it

but im sure with extremely complicated algorithms and syntax, a computer will one day approximate human behaviour to the point that differentiating becomes very hard. anyway, having them become conscious and all doesn't seem too great, they'd have to have rights and all and we'd probably end up fighting