Re:The singularity is close?
by mensetmanusman on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:40AM
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The plane of imagination isn’t physical, else you could touch it.
I don't know what a plane is in this context.
You can't touch fourier transforms either, but a human brain or a microchip can compute them.
Sure you can, its done currently for Deep Brain Stimulation. What you're proposing is "The plane of Quake isn't physical", which is nonsense.
I can make the computer imagine Quake for me, then fiddle with its plane of imagination for some sweet wallhacks.
Re:The singularity is close?
by mensetmanusman on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:43PM
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If you create a device that can insert objects into the plane of someone’s imagination, that would be awesome :)
That's a side effect of DBI today. It's a random and crude method today, but arguing that we we'll hit some ineffable wall that will prevent more fine-grained control is.. well let's just say that the gaps for gods grow ever smaller.
We say that we can experience thinking about an Apple, or imagining an Apple. I see no reason why a computer, or other physically implemented AGI system, could not do that. I suspect the act of imagination is just generating, processing and transforming a computational model abstracting the thing being imagined.
I believe brains are physical objects, so therefore physical objects can imagine Apples.