(January 24, 2022 at 8:53 pm)emjay Wrote:(January 23, 2022 at 1:44 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The machine theory would say that the internal view is not what you detect or process. It’s not seeing, but attending to the fact that you see.
I've never heard of machine theory... is it related to comp mind or have you moved on from that in your thinking? And what does it mean to 'attend' to the fact that you're seeing... in the case of humans, do you mean mental focus or something?
I used it as an umbrella term for theories that attempt to explain the potential behaviors and reports of machines. They’re not explicitly about human consciousness, though I think they speak to the question of whether or not there’s any conceivable explanation arising from materialistic principles.
If comp mind is the what, a specific machine theory could be the how. Attending to sight, more broadly attending to attention, is one way that researchers have proposed that a machine might be able to make a genuine report about what it’s doing, rather than -just doing it. It’s posited that a machine would have advantages if it possessed the systems and information required to do some sort of internal monitoring or modeling. Benefits to control, being the most well developed and well evidenced.
I saw it mentioned that consciousness doesn’t seem to be required for addition. I think that’s true, but I also struggle to think of anyone who thinks that our brains are an evolutionary response to needing to do addition.
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