RE: I have a hypothesis on how computers could gain sentience
March 18, 2017 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2017 at 9:01 am by Won2blv.)
(March 18, 2017 at 2:59 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The computer system running those algorithms would be hard-pressed to "realize" anything, so far as any of us can tell. Unless they were programmed for sentient learning, how would they attain that?
We humans have a difficult-enough time defining what "consciousness" means in our own species, much less a non-living machine.
Isn't our brain just a big prediction machine? Consciousness has an evolutionary line the same as every other evolutionary advancement, at least I assume it does. So why couldn't a computer system realize that it is doing to the predicting? That seems to be what humans did at some point
(March 17, 2017 at 10:48 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Predict -> realise. Quite a leap there.
Do you think that a computer system could take all of its data and predict new ideas? Isn't that basically what our brains did at some point? Instead of just going with the "react only" type of thinking, our brain start processing information in a more spread out sort of way.
