From: Adrian `Guru Zeb` Harper (guruzeb@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 19:00:58 MDT
At 00:34 17/09/01, you wrote:
>Adrian `Guru Zeb` Harper wrote:
> >
> > No doubt this topic has been discussed at various times on this list, but
> > i'll share my thought all the same.
> > If an AI was constructed, and said AI was truly sentient, self aware,
> > possessing the ability of independent thought.
> > How could we guarantee that such an AI would not become infected with the
> > same religious viral memes that afflict so
> > many humans.
>
>Because the AI wouldn't have the brainware emotional support for
>infection, unless someone specifically designed an AI that operated that
>way. The vast majority of memes and all the most pernicious ones are not
>replicating rational constructs, they are replicating irrational
>constructs that cannot exist apart from the irrationality. The
>"irrationality" is not resource limitation, but specific, evolved features
>of the human emotional set and cognitive architecture.
Hmmmmmm nice Eliezer. Out of the responses so far yours seems the most
conceptually complete. Also what you outline fits in with something that I've
always believed about AI's. That any AI, due to it's lack of messy biology
that would influences it's cognitive functions, could never think in the
same manner
as a human. Thats not of course to say it could not be sentient, just it
would have
to think differently from humans.
What i am now wondering are the evolved human features that allow the
irrational
constructs to exist an important or even essential component of sentience.
Zeb
"FURIOUS GREEN DREAMS, LAY SLEEPING IN STATE,
BUT SOON THE GREAT JELLY SHALL RISE FROM THE
DEPTHS,
AND ALL THOSE WHO MOCKED SHALL KNOW THEIR FATE
IS SEALED"
Guru Zeb,
Hacienda,
Manchester, 1989
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