When things sound too good to be true, you should take them with a tablespoon of salt ...
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Michael Olea
m_r_olea
Nov 24, 2009 11:41 pm
... It was all a big misunderstanding based on a typo when "Brain Stimulator" was misprinted as "Brain Simulator". - M....
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 24, 2009 11:52 pm
... I mean, I was amazed at such proclamations of progress in brain simulation as I'm pretty sure they at least have i) No idea what the encoding of...
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Michael Olea
m_r_olea
Nov 25, 2009 12:10 am
... It reminds me of Homer Simpson's attempts to build a robot by painting a face on a bucket. Later, at "Itchy & Scratchy Land", Marge would say "Look, Homey,...
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SWM
swmaerske
Nov 30, 2009 5:23 pm
I haven't been involved here for a while, in part because I did not think I had anything new or of sufficient import to contribute. Howevere, I've stayed...
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SWM
swmaerske
Nov 30, 2009 5:35 pm
Just to add a bit more regarding Dehaene's comments in order to offer a slightly fuller picture on this list of his overall claims here are some further...
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SWM
swmaerske
Nov 30, 2009 5:55 pm
Actually, on further consideration, I think this, near the end of his talk, is especially interesting: ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 30, 2009 11:30 pm
This is consistent with true physicalism, i.e: 1.phenomenal-states are computational 2.computational states are physical 3.phenomenal-states are identical to...
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SWM
swmaerske
Dec 1, 2009 2:29 am
I thought you'd appreciate the reference to a brain prosthesis. But there's a lot more that's pretty interesting in Dehaene's presentation. As I see it the...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Dec 8, 2009 6:08 pm
Hello there, As you know, I've made a prototype implementation of an incremental machine learning system, that hopefully goes beyond OOPS in terms of ...
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Bill Modlin
wdmodlin
Dec 10, 2009 6:18 am
Eray, I'm of course pleased to hear that you are making progress and getting encouraging results. Please keep us informed. But I must say that I'm confused...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Dec 10, 2009 1:19 pm
... IDSIA. I think my current program is an improvement over OOPS. The system generates Scheme programs and can learn incrementally. However, what it learns...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Dec 11, 2009 10:34 pm
Dear ai-philosophy members, With great sadness, I have heard today that prominent computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer Ray Solomonoff has ...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
Dec 18, 2009 5:31 am
Bob: I had a strange dream last night. Alice: Here we go again. Bob: I was at a tennis match and no matter how brilliantly either person played, no one cheered...
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sadeghi.afshin
Jan 1, 2010 7:23 pm
Hi It is like automation of automation.Imagin (they are allready exist) neural networks that are learning to supervise training of other neural networks while...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
Jan 1, 2010 8:14 pm
I imagine that would be solved by noting simultaneous causal events. Ray...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
Jan 4, 2010 10:17 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1240410/The-real-Frankenstein-experiment-One-mans-mission-create-living-mind-inside-machine.html I'm a little...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jan 22, 2010 7:12 pm
This is hilarious, thanks Larry. :) ... From: Larry <larry_tapper@...> Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:01 AM Subject: [analytic] Official philosophy referee...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jan 22, 2010 7:21 pm
Late Solomonoff's latest work mentioned replacing heuristic programmers. I wonder what this might require. Minimalistic thinking yields three conditions. 1. A...
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CAv
cav_345
Jan 28, 2010 4:14 am
Is anyone familiar with the 8 circuit model of consciousness ? I have been thinking about this model now for about 5 years and finally wrote some software to...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jan 28, 2010 6:43 pm
... Well, I suppose, like you did, you can distinguish between levels of intelligence/consciousness. As for GA's, they are a "biologically inspired" class of...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Jan 30, 2010 4:46 pm
I am sure many of you will enjoy the link below, and some the discussion. My hope is that you might glimpse the quantum nature of truth and mind I have been...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Feb 2, 2010 10:18 am
I agree with most of what schmidhuber says except the bit about godel machines and ants. Simply because I don't think it makes sense to create robots with ...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Feb 2, 2010 6:37 pm
The video link below has the dubious title "The Primacy of Consciousness", but it is well presented and I believe it has relevance to the philosophy of mind...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
Feb 2, 2010 10:58 pm
I appreciate the effort to introduce a new paradigm; clearly science has this hard problem. Although one can simply limit science to observables, but this...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Feb 4, 2010 5:27 pm
Someone plese tell me to shut up, if this is considered inappropriate here. ... From: Jim Whitescarver <jimscarver@...> Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:06...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
Feb 4, 2010 11:31 pm
So... if all conclusions are wrong, does that include yours? :) As far as fundamental logical constraints go, I could suggest that time emerges from...
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ai-philosophy@yahoogr...
Feb 11, 2010 9:28 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ai-philosophy group. File :...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Feb 11, 2010 9:29 pm
If you follow the references there is a longer draft on the net that you can download. Comments most welcome. I would like to know especially if the near-term...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Feb 22, 2010 4:33 pm
Are there any interesting philosophy of mind papers that you would like to discuss? Best, -- Eray Ozkural http://myspace.com/arizanesil...
