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Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over by tree_of_item on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:16PM (#15259931)
No, why would "your conscious self" know any of the answers? The problems biological organisms face aren't even well defined enough to have "answers" generally.
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Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over by phkahler on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:49PM (#15266022)
People learn many things by being told a set of rules and/or objectives. Over time they can self-evaluate their performance against those rules and objective.

I suppose an animal may have a need - it feel hungry. If it can satisfy that need then it should reinforce whatever it did to get not-hungry. I suppose that doesn't require conscious awareness. But at some level of complexity we have to be able to plan more complex actions (hunting, tracking) and be able to self-evaluate performance on the sub-tasks used to get food.

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