(July 14, 2015 at 9:26 am)Rhythm Wrote: Here's an interesting thought experiment. Imagine that you are an alien from a distant planet comprised of lifeforms that human beings would consider machines, mechanical. You see the organisms here and conclude that some portion of them are thinking, are intelligent, but according to your alien standard, artificial. Human beings down to bacteria, where do you, as that alien species, draw the line for strong ai within this set? What is the creature that is, essentially, the floor for "strong ai in bioautomotons". Now, perhaps even more illuminating, the next creature down the rungs, still an intelligence, but not a "strong" intelligence, what would that be, and on what grounds does the one fail to qualify as a strong bioautomaton intelligence, where the other succeeds?
Both the biological life and mechanical alien life in your thought experiment are strong AI because they are both wholly self organising.
Nothing has to deliberately plug values into their brains or meddle with the internals from outside. A rat that is having its pleasure centres stimulated by a scientist in a lab is no longer a completely self organising system but the two of them together are. And they together are a small part of a larger self organising system.
