Re: What language will be used to write the first self aware program?

Rob Thorpe wrote:
David Steuber wrote:

Lisp seems like the obvious candidate. Or perhaps some descendant of
Lisp that adds to the features Common Lisp already has.

The only real problem I see with this is that, so far as I know, no
one knows how self awareness works. Perhaps we should ask a Cylon.

Oh, Hi! I'm just trying to get going at work and I don't get to write
Lisp here :-(. I've not been doing any programming in my free time
either because life is still a bit hectic. However, I do have a high
definition version of Xeno's Xoom on the way. Perhaps it will be
finished before Christmas. It will be just like the current one
except that the resolution will be 1280x720 @ 30fps. I'm also likely
to do a palette animated version.

Bored to death at work,


It depends on how self awareness is defined. I think Cyc once asked
what it was, and who operated it. Its operators replied to both
question, and it now knows.

My Googling indicates "If you ask it, it can tell you." Big difference.

But this does not show that much about
intelligence since the question emerges fairly directly from Cyc
attempting to gather knowledge.


So "Mommy, where did I come from?" does not count? :)

The breakthru has happened when we tell the system what it is and it says, OK, I see all that, the hardware, the software... but what about /me/? Where is that?

kt

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