This Research is about Consciousness and AI

A roadmap from human consciousness to artificial intelligence

Introduction

The hypothosis is that human thought centres around a virtual simulation of physical reality, made by binding signals from our sensory touch inputs and muscle outputs to our 2D vision and serial language. The details and consequences of this theory are presented on this web site. I hope the research will be found interesting, persuasive and quite accessible to the average reader.


Mission Statement

To develop a model of human intelligence based on what we now know, or can infer, from research into the human mind through neuro and cognitive science.

To then use this knowledge in order to create real AI as soon as possible from current engineering components.

 
- FAQ - Mar05
- So what's this all about?
- But what about language!
- But I don't think in pictures!
- But the 'chinese room' argument!
- Why bother?
- How can a machine create ideas?
- How can a machine have feelings?
- So show us a silicon brain then!
- But sound isn't a 3D object!
- Humans will always be smarter!
- But computers can't even move!
- What about human values?

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- Contact & copyright


- Latest Articles  

- The 4th Dimension
- The 3d Matrix
- Who is the Knower
- The Polarization of Space
- A Unifying Principle
- The Fundamental Problem
- The concept of Truth
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- Older Articles  

- Biological memory
- Artificial instantiation
- Object memory
- Cluster computing
- Biological instantiation
- Multiple GUI modality
- Software as animation
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To appear in forthcoming book 'Artificial General Intelligence'
- Edited by Ben Goertzel and Cassio Pennachin 2006 -
3D Simulation - The Key to AI

Quotations

- creativity -
"No thought can exit your mind that is neither prior art, random noise or a mixture of the two."
"prior art is either genetically coded, e.g. chocolate & cute blondes; or socially programmed, e.g. spinach & tax gatherers are good for you"


- feelings -
As George once said in Seinfeld, "Jerry - if you believe it - it isn't really a lie!"
"Well if your consciousness believes in feelings too, they can't be a lie either - right?"


- Overview - May04

- Introduction
- Consciousness
- Feeling and qualia
- General intelligence
- Human intelligence
- 3D simulation and language
- Epistemology
- Instantiation
- In a nutshell
- Real world AI
- Examples and metaphors
- Barcode example
- Software design
- Conclusion
- Notes & references
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Illustration map
"We do not need to understand the human mind in order to operate one,
but we do in order to build one"

A representation of consciousness
 
Beauty in the eye of the beholder?
 
     
Starship Enterprise
 
Relationship of language to AI
 
     
Consciousness within the real world
 
2D Rendering & 3D Instantiation
 
     
Relationship of Reality to Consciousness
 
Learning from exposure to Reality
 
     
Generation of Human Action - Free Will
 
Relationship of Language to Consciousness
 
     
Relationship of Language to 3D Animation
 
Instantiation - 3D objects from 2D input
 
     
The Mind - a collection of 3D Animations
 
The relationship of Body and Mind