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Resonate your identity with Naseeb journals. Express your opinions, share your thoughts, post your writings and connect with like minded people through the power of expression.
Resonate your identity with Naseeb journals. Express your opinions, share your thoughts, post your writings and connect with like minded people through the power of expression.
Replicating the Human Mind
?Say: Is there anyone among your idols who can initiate creation, then reproduce it? Say: God initiates the creation, then reproduces it. How then can you turn away?? -Quran 10:34
?And it is He who originates the creation, then reproduces it; and that is easy for Him. To Him belongs the loftiest similitude in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Almighty, the Most Wise.? -Quran 30:27
In ?Rethinking Deep Blue: Why a Computer Can't Reproduce a Mind? www.arn.org), the author takes up the defeat of world chess champion Gary Kasparov by IBM?s Deep Blue Supercomputer as a case study to explore issues in consciousness and AI (Artificial Intelligence). He discusses the Turing test of machine intelligence, introduces the notorious frame problem in AI research, and asks insightful questions challenging the view that it may be possible to program AI or a computer with consciousness and qualia (qualia are subjective mental states of sensory experience such as the sight of the color ?red? or the smell of coffee). I would also like to point out that I have found it amusing and insightful to ponder over Daniel Dennett?s illustration of the frame problem. In The Robot's Dilemma: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence, Dennett demonstrated the frame problem by using an illustrative example of the progressively sophisticated programming of RxDy robots that attempt to retrieve their power supply battery sitting on a wagon with a time bomb (excerpt in Word - www.cogsys.ubc.ca).
Can the human mind ever be replicated? Human cognition involves a plethora of intricate faculties such as abstract thought, decision-making, logical reasoning, computation, problem solving, retroactive analysis, memory, judgment, intuition, creativity, visualization, perception, emotion, courage, fear, mercy, pleasure, qualia, free will, and so on. I maintain that the attempt to replicate in AI this entire mental enterprise of human cognition perhaps makes us best appreciate how phenomenally gifted our cognition is. So much for those conscious AI machines in The Matrix.
Nadeem
?And it is He who originates the creation, then reproduces it; and that is easy for Him. To Him belongs the loftiest similitude in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Almighty, the Most Wise.? -Quran 30:27
In ?Rethinking Deep Blue: Why a Computer Can't Reproduce a Mind? www.arn.org), the author takes up the defeat of world chess champion Gary Kasparov by IBM?s Deep Blue Supercomputer as a case study to explore issues in consciousness and AI (Artificial Intelligence). He discusses the Turing test of machine intelligence, introduces the notorious frame problem in AI research, and asks insightful questions challenging the view that it may be possible to program AI or a computer with consciousness and qualia (qualia are subjective mental states of sensory experience such as the sight of the color ?red? or the smell of coffee). I would also like to point out that I have found it amusing and insightful to ponder over Daniel Dennett?s illustration of the frame problem. In The Robot's Dilemma: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence, Dennett demonstrated the frame problem by using an illustrative example of the progressively sophisticated programming of RxDy robots that attempt to retrieve their power supply battery sitting on a wagon with a time bomb (excerpt in Word - www.cogsys.ubc.ca).
Can the human mind ever be replicated? Human cognition involves a plethora of intricate faculties such as abstract thought, decision-making, logical reasoning, computation, problem solving, retroactive analysis, memory, judgment, intuition, creativity, visualization, perception, emotion, courage, fear, mercy, pleasure, qualia, free will, and so on. I maintain that the attempt to replicate in AI this entire mental enterprise of human cognition perhaps makes us best appreciate how phenomenally gifted our cognition is. So much for those conscious AI machines in The Matrix.
Nadeem