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From: sylvere@divsun.unige.ch (Silvere Martin-Michiellot)
Subject: Re: Thinking about thinking
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In article b7u@cwis.isu.edu, moosmich@cwis.isu.edu (MOOSMAN_MICHAEL_T) writes:
>   I've been thinking about AI a lot.  I now believe that it would
>be 100% posible to create.  After all, aren't we all AI in some
>sense.
>
>   I'd like to talk about why we make our desitions.  I believe
>that it is from with desition at that time would give us the
>most "joy" and the least "pain".  We would scan through are
>memory to decide on an action that would give us "joy".
>
>   Anyway this is only a thought.  It would also mean that
>any thing we do is because we believe it would give us
>the most "joy" at that moment.
>
>   A question I have not yet discovered is how we connect
>your memories to form these conclutions.
>
>   Anyway what I'm getting at is to make AI (I mean the REAL
>stuff).  What we need is to program a machine to flip through
>it's memory and find actions that would give it the most "joy"
>This "joy" would be programed in by the maker.  If "joy" =
>killing.  Then we would have a machine that would scan through
>it's memory to find the fastest way to kill the most things.
>If "joy" = exploration and live preservation, then it would 
>attemp to find the fastest, best way to do just that.
>
>   If your at all intrested in that stuff, then mail me
>and tell me what you think.  I'm simply exploring how we think.
>If we can discover that, then AI is made.
>
>   The AI I'm talking about is not the crap we have right now.
>I'm talking about machines with the ability to learn, explore,
>and to think.  Mail me if you have any ideas about what
>I am talking about, or if you find it interesting.
>
>   Forgive the poor spelling.
>
>moosmich@ucs.isu.edu
>
>Michael Moosman



There is a very interesting proposition currentely available in the newsgroup
comp.ai.alife of something looking like what you propose, but better (IMHO).

Your proposition looks like very old AI design in fact.
But may be I didn't understood, or you didn't tell enough.

Sincerly,

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"Is anyone alive down there ?"
  

Silvere MARTIN-MICHIELLOT


