Artificial Intelligence 2020 - is there progress? - page 19

 
Maksim Neimerik:

You're talking more about the evolution of the monkey than the likelihood of typing... As far as I understood that article, it was about unconscious typing...

He's conflating learning and evolution. As far as I understood it.

 
Maksim Neimerik:

You're talking more about the evolution of the monkey than the likelihood of typing... As far as I understood that article, it was about unconscious typing...

You're right. If you reason in that plane, then the time of existence of the universe is not enough for a monkey).

 
Valeriy Yastremskiy:

Apophenia is inherent and not alien to human beings, plus it's medic's day)))) and I'll be even worse in the evening))))

So, you're a medic, too? You treat alcoholism?

 
By the way, digging around in my memory I found only one classic character similar in character to Prince Myshkin - Don Quixote. )))
 
War and Peace has 3 million characters, counting a character at 5 bits, 15 million bits. MO ~= 2^(2^22) kind of thing.
 
Vitaliy Maznev:

So you're also a doctor, then? Treating alcoholism?

Heh heh heh.... there's something to that. )))) no,I'm not a medical professional. Allergies are immunological systemic diseases. Alcoholism is one of those when there's no cure. )))) Let's drop the subject, it's off-topic)))))

 

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While we're at it.

Since ancient times, it has been believed that the soul is responsible for consciousness and the body is the vessel for it. A few theories follow (summarised).

Reincarnation. The basic idea of Eastern religions. There is a confirmation of modern science with the help of regression hypnosis: people are put into hypnosis and remember all the earlier events of their life up to birth, and then people begin to describe "otherworldly" life, previous deaths and lives, go to foreign languages, describe places and life from the past and other regions of the earth.

In addition, scientists have managed to measure the "weight" of the soul. After death, the head becomes lighter by a few grams.

People in the state of clinical death can describe what was going on around them.

Under the influence of substances people feel an expansion of consciousness, as if the body stops restricting them.

Castaneda, that's something else. Everything he describes is very similar to the effects of substances, mind experiments ala mkultra, constant reincarnations soul-body, lucid dreaming (out of body?), string theory. But those themes came later than his books.

There are also myths that people used to be much bigger and less dense, like clouds. This theme could be promoted further. What if people in the past already transplanted cognition into denser matter. I mean, what is life, can we say that a cloud thinks or a piece of silicon thinks? What if life evolved not only from bacteria to primates, but also from less dense matter to more dense matter. In the early universe, everything was in a gaseous state, so life must have consisted of gases. Then solid planets began to form and life began to take on modern forms, and then life could take on the form of robots. That is, life consciousness acquires more and more dense bodies in order to better interact with the world around us.

Or we can use a more modern theory that we are connected to a matrix, all around is a computer emulation, and vr will be a matrix in a matrix as an onion.
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Rorschach:

Or we could go for a more modern theory, that we are connected to a matrix, everything around is a computer emulation, and vr would be a matrix within a matrix, like an onion.

You can say whatever you want. But the best solution is to get sober. :)