Kurzweil against an AI critic: (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 02:13 (4957 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> > At the same time, nothing here will be learned by not trying; I'm as committed now as I was when we first broached the subject: we won't learn about the brain (or the mind) by sitting still and theorizing. It's time to get dirty and do the work of a madman!
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> I think the point for me is the same as it is in so many other areas of science. It is one thing to say, "By doing this, we can learn something." That is a noble pursuit and an exercise in humility, admitting how little we know, and how much there is to learn. So in that respect, attempting to make a AI brain is a worthy endeavor. But that does not mean that we will learn tremendous amounts about the human brain by studying an AI brain, nor that we will crack the mystery of consciousness by studying an unconscious object, no matter how lifelike it might seem.-Why do you so value "humility?" Great men (Augustus, Caesar, Leonidas, Xerxes, Constantine, Cato, Leibniz, Newton, Moses of Deleon, Penn Gillette, Justinian, Euler... I can go on???) all took great pride in who they were and what they had done for their people. Humility is a "slave word" for those who value subservience to greatness...

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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.\"