Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Iconic transfer, consciousness requires control and ownership - Igor Aleksander's thoughts

He thinks machines can have meaningful sensations by something called "iconic transfer".

Igor says consciousness requires the organism to have a sense of control and ownership.
 
What is a 'sensation' or feeling?  Can an artificial system have sensations and feelings?  Like 'consciousness', the word 'sensation' is one for which we develop a meaning based entirely on experience


--Igor Aleksander "A Neurocomputational View of Consciousness"



Maybe I need to read some Wittgenstein and understand the "non-essetialism of language"


Consciousness is in need of a scientific enquiry.

Consciousness is altered by drugs.  Why/how?

Igor thinks we should study consciousess with artifical neurons bcos there aren't good enough measuring techniques to study real neurons.

He thinks machines can have meaningful sensations by something called "iconic transfer".

building a mental image of what the world is like

Igor says consciousness requires the organism to have a sense of control and ownership.  Are these the things missing from that Chinese room AI?

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