Chapter 1 of \"Does it Matter?\": No such thing as AI (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 11:54 (4992 days ago)

Graham Dunstan Martin starts out his attack on materialism by simply attacking whether or not humans could create consciousness. -The crux of his argument is this: -Language itself is imprecise when it deals with the world; and is more imprecise yet when we try to describe experience itself, or 'tacit' knowledge. -Machines can only understand the explicit; therefore they will never understand the tacit. -Therefore, we will never build a true human intelligence based on this fact alone.-Currently I am forced to agree; however I disagree with the statement "never." We are just getting to the point where we can even think of actually building a brain. I know Balance_Maintained would object by saying we would need to construct a biological brain, but I don't see that as necessary for several reasons. -The deeper problem would be how to come up with a way that machines could use tacit knowledge. I don't see at present how this can be done; and though I hold the door open to the future, I am firmly in realization of a possible limit. -Martin also points out that there is a gap between the theoreticians in the field of AI and the practitioners; the practitioners seem much more modest in what they think their machines can do, whereas the theoreticians are not.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"