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Intelligent phenomena
have certain
fundamental properties, such as { a world, the capacity for action
within the
world, a model of desired state of self-within-the-world, a model of
the actual
state of self-within-the-world, the means to detect the difference
between the
desired-self and actual-self, the capacity to act to reduce this
difference }
where 'model' may be implicit or explicit. Biological intelligence in
3-space
has additional properties, such as embodiment in contiguous space-time
and
government by game-theoretic value-systems required for replication in
communal
environments.
'Projectual Identity'
is proposed as an
intrinsic feature of biological intelligence which encompasses two
aspects. First,
there is no objective external world; rather, the world is pre-given to
the
organism as a purposeful model-of-self for which sensory stimuli are
merely
guide-posts within projects. Second, behavior, including reality as
experienced
from the 1st-person point-of-view, is governed by a dynamic
project-graph
providing an ever-present projectual-context to the perception-action
loop. Biologically
speaking, there is no world, only projects. Various philosophical
issues
associated with human intelligence and AI are addressed within this
framework.
The talk was delivered
relatively
painlessly for the speaker, but could have been improved with the
subtle
give-and-take normally provided by visual feedback in the non-virtual
world.
Sean Murphy