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Robert J. Marks on why AI doesn’t achieve consciousness

This might be an argument for the uniquess of being alive in general and of human consciousness in particular.

Robert J. Marks: Some infinities are bigger than others but there’s no biggest one

In Marks’s view, infinity is a beautiful — and provable — theory in math that can’t exist in reality without ludicrous consequences. (Thus the immaterial human mind is capable of creating things that don’t exist in material reality.)

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Robert J. Marks on “machines with minds” vs. the real-life dweebs in his evolutionary programming:

A machine mind didn’t “just evolve” in this experiment; it was programmed in — even if its output was a surprise. The same is likely true of the human mind.

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Robert J. Marks: 4. How Almost All Numbers Can Encode the Library of Congress

Re math: Almost every number between zero and one, randomly chosen by coin flipping, will at some point contain the binary encoding of the Library of Congress. That’s why infinity is a concept in math but not in the real world. Note: You should ask, how do we come to have concepts that are not part of the real world?

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At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity illustrates that the universe has a beginning

The absurdities that an infinite past time would create, while not a definitive mathematical proof, are solid evidence that our universe had a beginning.

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At Mind Matters News: The Software of the Gaps: An excerpt from Non-Computable You

Robert J. Marks reminds us of the tale of the boy who dug through a pile of manure because he was sure that … underneath all that poop, there MUST surely be a pony!

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At Mind Matters News: 1. Why Infinity Does Not Exist in Reality

Robert J. Marks: In a series of five posts, I explain the difference between what infinity means — and doesn’t mean — as a concept.

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At Mind Matters News: Computer prof: You are not computable and here’s why not

Dr. Robert J. Marks’s new book, Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press, 2022), comes out just as Google has placed an engineer on leave for claiming an AI chatbot he tends is a real person…

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At Mind Matters News: New AI learns to simulate common sense

The GPT-3 program can get through grammatical issues on which others stumble, says Robert J. Marks. It is a simulation because the AI can perform the task but does not “understand” what the concepts mean: The classic test for AI common sense is resolution of Winograd schema. Winograd schema contain vague, ambiguous pronouns. Common sense Read More…

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At Mind Matters News: Can higher dimensions help us understand biblical miracles?

Some Biblical miracles are better understood if we assume four spatial dimensions. Robert J.Marks thinks that the short novel Flatland (1884) helps us understand.

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Computer engineers look at design tradeoffs in the human body

Sam Haug: When designing a human being or any incredibly complex system, there are some design trade-offs. You can design a human being to be able to resist the effects of eating hemlock, for example, but the cost for doing that may be large.

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At Mind Matters News: How even random numbers show evidence of design

Marks: In fact, I have a student right now who is looking at training a neural network to forecast random numbers. If these random numbers are being generated by a deterministic algorithm, then we should be able to discover what the deterministic algorithm is.

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At Mind Matters News: Can wholly random processes produce information?

Marks: We showed that in all cases, that yes, [design] was required, and that there’s mathematics behind it. The mathematics is based on the No Free Lunch Theorem, which was popularized in the IEEE transactions on evolutionary computing in 1997. There, David Wolpert and W. G. Macready showed something which astonished the area of genetic programming and evolutionary programming.

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At Mind Matters News: How do we know Lincoln contained more information than his bust?

Egnor: Life forms strive to be more of what they are. Grains of sand don’t. You need more information to strive than to just exist.

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At Mind Matters News: Does Mt Rushmore contain no more information than Mt Fuji?

As Jeffrey Shallit claims? That is, does intelligent intervention increase information? Is that intervention detectable by science methods?

Querius Critical Rationalist @229, According to ID, we exhibit the appearance of design. Which exactly the thing that ID is trying... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist A sad state of affairs. The Designer is outside of space and time and creates without using pre-existing matter. Can... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist No, it doesn’t. From your own reference… In this view, splitting is not an abrupt event. It evolves through decoherence... – Is there a center of the...
Querius Martin_r @223, CR, replication requires materials and components, properly arranged, oriented and coupled; You know what any replication requires? THE... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Querius Haha, love it, Jerry! Thank you! Is there also a gene that compels people to come up with settled solutions... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Querius Seversky @5, For me, the problem with the concept of a self-organizing Universe is that, as with evolution, it does... – Stephen Hawking’s co-author: Hawking thought that...
relatd CD, Sorry, but my ChatGPT Righteous Indignation program failed. – Stephen Hawking’s co-author: Hawking thought that...
relatd CR at 229, A sad state of affairs. The Designer is outside of space and time and creates without using... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes Chuckdarwin @48 What is the difference between agent causation and self-causation, if there is one? I have read several definitions... – Skeptic argues free will is real
Origenes PM1 @47 I have to think about how to answer your questions. Meanwhile here are a few comments on the... – Skeptic argues free will is real
jerry Who writes this nonsense? Welcome to ID. One of the best proofs for a designer is the water transportation system.... – If two snowflakes are identical, does...
chuckdarwin This from the Amazon description of Hertog’s new book (ranked No. 1 in Astrophysics): As Hawking’s final days drew near,... – Stephen Hawking’s co-author: Hawking thought that...
chuckdarwin Snowflakes “perform no function?” I guess contributing to the mountain snow pack that fills rivers and reservoirs, which in turn... – If two snowflakes are identical, does...
critical rationalist CR, the circle is yours. You forget that we are designers and observers. I have? According to ID, we exhibit... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry A blast from the past. It explains everything that happens on UD. Ironic is how this is almost impossible to... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
relatd Querius at 46, You're welcome. When man limits himself by considering other men as the only possible source of knowledge,... – Skeptic argues free will is real
chuckdarwin PM1 Origenes What is the difference between agent causation and self-causation, if there is one? – Skeptic argues free will is real
PyrrhoManiac1 @45 Spinoza goes all the way, but what would the alternative look like? “We are 90% determined”? 50%? What would... – Skeptic argues free will is real
critical rationalist CR, replication requires materials and components, properly arranged, oriented and coupled; requisites of configuration based function. That has to come... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Querius Alan Fox @29, Similarly? Oh my aching sides! A vacuous, content-free troll post. How do refineries separate hydrocarbons if not... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
PaV Does an identical snowflake increase information? It all depends on your definition of information. Any time a 'snowflake' forms, there... – If two snowflakes are identical, does...