From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 02:34:41 MDT
Emlyn wrote:
>
>
> It is actually my full point that you can't grok your 3-month old self. Why
> don't we have any memories of that age? At that age, kids do remember
> things; they have more continuity of self than, say, a goldfish (in my
> opinion as the dad of a 4 month old, anyway). They even have long term
> memory; they know who their primary carers are, for instance.
I do remember back that far. Not remembering that is not a universal
trait.
>
> I'm thinking that an SI, even one which is technically an augmented human
> (ie: take raw human adult, add technology, iterate), may have the same
> trouble with grokking grown up humans, that we have with our littlest folk;
> surely, after all, the gap in mental power is similar.
>
Nope. The gap between human adult and SI is many orders of magnitude
greater. But I don't see a sound argument here for assuming that the SI
could not understand in principle.
- samantha
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