From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 18:16:18 MDT
> I am not clear regarding your reference to the separation between
> "individual" and "society" with
> when speaking of AI systems. The 'individualism' will result because
> 1)AI
> systems will be designed
> with different roles to play, such as weather prediction (or control)
> overseeing the monetary
> management of companies and countries, medical diagnosis, resource
> managment,
> engineering, etc.
Sure, but if these different programs all learn from each other in various
ways, they'll be to a certain extent considerable as different specialized
lobes of the same brain.
Individuality isn't about specialization of function, it's about the "sense
of self", holistic self-modeling, etc.
My contention is that our physical bodies give us more separateness than
AI's will have with each other. They'll be able to exchange brain contents
directly, a kind of togetherness we currently don't have access to. So the
borders between individual minds will end up more blurred than is the case
with human minds. Resulting in a kind of mind inbetween what we consider
'individual' and what we consider 'social'
-- ben
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