On: April 4, 2017
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Dr. Goertzel makes a good point, that humans are attempting to define machine consciousness, yet humanity has not yet been able to define what consciousness really is. It’s an interesting idea, that advanced artificial intelligence could teach humanity what consciousness is. This would be something that I think would happen in the early stages of artificial intelligence because as it speedily increases its thinking capacity, it would get to a point where this would not be possible.
Could a super intelligent AI machine, that is a million times more intelligent than the smartest human, even relate to us?
“Let an ultra- intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man, however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultra- intelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultra- intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.” ~ I.J. Good, “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine”
Dr. Goertzel goes on to justify the use of ultra- intelligent artificial intelligence, as applications that can help humanity increase our scientific knowledge.
Such an application comes to mind. Studies have shown that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. An artificial intelligent Doctors Assistant would bring down this number.
Dr. Goertzel has a Panpsychism view that consciousness is a universal concept and that all things possess some form of consciousness. This is not a popular philosophy or belief with most Scientists. I do share this view along with him. Just because we haven’t learned the conscious experience and language of nature, and how all things in our unperceived and perceived reality communicate, doesn’t mean that they don’t have some form of consciousness and self-awareness.
I understand that people who all experience the same thing or read the same data, don’t have the exact same conscious experience. Using Dr. Goertzel’s idea of plugging into someone else’s mind to understand their conscious experience, seems to miss all of the programmed belief patterns that were developed for that conscious experience and its emotional state to exist.
One thing to think about is that humans program their minds and conscious reality through environmental and cultural experiences. We develop set patterns of beliefs and views on the external stimulus and data we encounter through living life.
Dr. Goertzel brought up adding Quantum processing power to power an AI machine.
Could an ultra-intelligent AI machine be able to have Psychic Powers?
There is a lot of empirical, scientific evidence for psychic powers like telepathy, remote viewing, extrasensory perception and other paranormal skills. In fact, Dr. Goertzel co-edited a book about this, Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. Just because most scientists refuse to study and validate this research, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
It seems that some people are born with and/or develop psychic powers. They have tuned into a higher capability of the human mind.
References from This Video and Article
(1) Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 2, Motilal Banarsidass, pages 605-609
(2) How does quantum physics work, you may ask, what is it, and where does it come from?