RE: evolution
March 15, 2022 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2022 at 4:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What constitutes minimal self awareness? It's right on the tin. Being aware of self.
Those would be minimally self aware machines, using an ability A (a criteria added for purposes of this discussion to make any notion of the utility of self awareness, minimal or what we have, cogent), to quantifiable effect. Yes. I think we can say, with respect to those lab trials and with respect to human reproductive strategies, that the benefit or gain of function here is crystal clear, as a fact - not a theory or hypothesis... like the theory or hypothesis that we possess these/this ability because it's useful and those useful structures are retained in subsequent iterations of systems by selective pressure in biological populations.
That's obviously -not- why machines possess those abilities, for example. It also, obviously, not the case that a machine -can't- accomplish some task that a minimally self aware machine is demonstrable better at. It's also clear that a specifically human consciousness is not at all required to solve the problems that nonhuman species also face and also solve.
Those would be minimally self aware machines, using an ability A (a criteria added for purposes of this discussion to make any notion of the utility of self awareness, minimal or what we have, cogent), to quantifiable effect. Yes. I think we can say, with respect to those lab trials and with respect to human reproductive strategies, that the benefit or gain of function here is crystal clear, as a fact - not a theory or hypothesis... like the theory or hypothesis that we possess these/this ability because it's useful and those useful structures are retained in subsequent iterations of systems by selective pressure in biological populations.
That's obviously -not- why machines possess those abilities, for example. It also, obviously, not the case that a machine -can't- accomplish some task that a minimally self aware machine is demonstrable better at. It's also clear that a specifically human consciousness is not at all required to solve the problems that nonhuman species also face and also solve.
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