[Synapse elist] Response to Ada et. al.

[Erika Lincoln]

Hi Ada,
Your Ph.D work sounds quite fascinating.

Your question here intrigues me, mainly because you have brought up a point that is close to my thinking about AI and HI. I don't think I can answer your question about choice but here is my contribution.
 
In discussing the nuances between AI and Human thought, or the labelling of the two I think about the language that is used to describe what constitutes the two. And while everyone who has posted interesting and complex concepts on AI in reference to Reva's questions I cant help but see a computational world view behind the thoughts. I am not inferring that this is somehow a bad thing, only an interesting point of human 'rational' thought.  N. Katherine Hayles addresses this in 'My Mother was a Computer' where she follows the shift from a mechanical world view to a computational world view not only in the sciences but in western culture as a whole.


To the list at large, the questions of creating new forms of sentience or intelligence as opposed to modeling or mimicking the natural world is something I had not explored before. But how can one conceive of the new when all one knows is what lies before them........???
How does one know that they are witnessing such a phenomena?

enjoying the discussion 
Erika

Erika Lincoln
Electronic Media Artist
Winnipeg/Manitoba/Canada
http://www.lincolnlab.net


--- On Sat, 6/7/08, ahenskens at bigpond.com <ahenskens at bigpond.com> wrote:

> From: ahenskens at bigpond.com <ahenskens at bigpond.com>
> Subject: Re: [Synapse elist] More answers to Reva!
> To: "Synapse elist" <elist at synapse.net.au>
> Received: Saturday, June 7, 2008, 2:30 AM
> -If I may toss in a question that arose when reading the
> contributors to date (Saturday 7th June '08), what part
> does choice make in considering AI in contrast to organic
> rational thought employed in the very personal way that an
> artist employs?  Does AI contain a system of choice, and
> how would this relate to human neurophysiology?
> 
> My background - I have just completed a Ph.D in Visual Art
> that considers how we construct our concepts of reality,
> using landscape art and the visual cortex as vehicles, and
> how the beliefs and technology of the time influence the
> expression of these concepts, artistically.
> 
> I had to do some research on the functioning and evolution
> of the visual cortex for this; in addition, I linked it to
> aspects of contemporary popular science programmes dealing
> with quantum physics, (consulting a Reader in Mathematics
> and Physics at my local university).  As it is, I cannot
> see a system that lacks an amygdala for instance,
> responding and framing neural networks in any comparable
> way.
> 
> Hope to receive some response to this; you all sound
> terribly well into what you do.
> 
> regards
> 
> Ada Henskens
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