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

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:51:31 +0200, David Steuber <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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,


I view self awareness as nothing more that a form autoepistemic logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoepistemic_logic
Stictly autoepistemic just means self refencing.
In particularly it realates to your knowlege of the outside world.
It arouse from a obsevation of what happened when a
traditional inference engine on predicate logic was asked questions
in a knowlege domain of which it knew nothing.
The result is of cource that it produses utter rubbish as it still
tries to use the rules it knows. On way to go has been to produce
a ruleset containg what we call common knowlege.
The other is autoepistemic logic which tries to make the
compute know what it knows. (and what it dosn't)

Not that I think humas think in the form of rules and deductions but I think
it gives a general idea of what we would regard as "self aware".
And it is a bit more rigerous.

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