Mindpixel Theory: Mind as Space
Christopher McKinstry
Toward the Automatic Discovery of a Universal Human Semantic-Affective
Hyperspace--A Possible Subcognitive Foundation of a Computer Program able to
pass the Turing Test' which is the theoretical foundation of the Mindpixel
project and which will appear in the forthcoming book 'The Turing Test
Source book: Philosophical and Methological Issues in the Quest for the
Thinking Computer' to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the
spring of 2003.
You may access the article directly via this link:
ttp://www.mindpixel.com/PDF/mindasspace.pdf
The article's abstract follows:
French (1990) identified "subcognitive questions"-questions with answers
which unconsciously depend on the whole of normal human experience-as a key
mechanism of the Turing Test's ultimate ability to discriminate a person
from a simulation of a person. French claims that no machine that has not
lived life as a normal human being, in a normal human body, can pass a
rigorous Turing Test. Additionally French notes that even though we
intuitively perceive intelligence as a continuum, the Turing Test does not,
limiting its usefulness in research. The present article describes a
possible method for the automatic discovery of a universal human
semantic-affective hyperspatial approximation of the human subcognitive
substrate-the associative network which French asserts is the ultimate
foundation of the human ability to pass the Turing Test-that does not
require a machine to have direct human experience or a physical human body.
This method involves automatic programming-such as Koza's genetic
programming (1992)-guided in the discovery of the proposed universal
hypergeometry by feedback from a Minimum Intelligent Signal Test or MIST
(McKinstry 1997) constructed from a large number of human validated
propositions collected from a large population of Internet users. It will be
argued that though a lifetime of human experience is required to pass a
rigorous Turing Test, a propositional approximation of this experience can
be constructed via public participation on the Internet, and then used as a
fitness function to direct the artificial evolution of a universal
hypergeometry capable of classifying new propositions. A model of this
hypergeometry will be presented that predicts Miller's "Magical Number
Seven" (iller 1956) as the size of human short-term memory from fundamental
hypergeometric properties. A system that can lead to the generation of new
propositions or "artificial thoughts" will also be described. It will be
concluded that the artificially evolved hypergeometry can serve as the
subcognitive foundation of a robot, or simulation of a robot, that can
ultimately pass the Turing Test and that a large corpus of human validated
propositions can also be used as an "Automatic Turing Test" to objectively
evaluate any current or future claim to artificial intelligence in a rapid,
automatic fashion, as well as serving as real world experiential data for
traditional symbolic processing systems.
Christopher McKinstry
Toward the Automatic Discovery of a Universal Human Semantic-Affective
Hyperspace--A Possible Subcognitive Foundation of a Computer Program able to
pass the Turing Test' which is the theoretical foundation of the Mindpixel
project and which will appear in the forthcoming book 'The Turing Test
Source book: Philosophical and Methological Issues in the Quest for the
Thinking Computer' to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the
spring of 2003.
You may access the chapter directly via this link:
http://www.mindpixel.com/PDF/mindasspace.pdf
Traveler
ch...@mindpixel.com (Christopher McKinstry) wrote:
>I have just released a preliminary PDF copy of my article 'Mind as Space:
>Toward the Automatic Discovery of a Universal Human Semantic-Affective
>Hyperspace--A Possible Subcognitive Foundation of a Computer Program able to
>pass the Turing Test' which is the theoretical foundation of the Mindpixel
>project and which will appear in the forthcoming book 'The Turing Test
>Source book: Philosophical and Methological Issues in the Quest for the
>Thinking Computer' to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the
>spring of 2003.
When are you GOFAI crackpots going to throw in the towel?
Your approach to AI is stupid, to say the least. You've been at it for
over fifty years and you are no closer to figuring out intelligence
than you did when you first started. Your work, McKinstry, has nothing
to do with intelligence and never did.
Intelligence is what psychology and neuroscience define it to be,
period. It has to do with things like neural assemblies, synaptic
plasticity, sensory perception, motivation, reward and punishment,
aversive and appetitive behavior, learning, motor control and
coordination, classical and operant conditioning. These are the sort
of things that intelligence is about, not the crap that you are
peddling.
Universal Human Semantic-Affective Hyperspace? What kind of crap is
that? What sort of bullshit are you selling now? Why do you insist on
wasting the public's time and money? This is approaching outright
dishonesty, in my opinion. You are looking more and more like snake
oil salesmen. And you are giving AI a bad name.
Temporal Intelligence:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/louis.savain/AI/Temporal_Intelligence.htm
The Silver Bullet:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/louis.savain/AI/Reliability.htm
Christopher McKinstry
> Intelligence is what psychology and neuroscience define it to be,
> period. It has to do with things like neural assemblies, synaptic
> plasticity, sensory perception, motivation, reward and punishment,
> aversive and appetitive behavior, learning, motor control and
> coordination, classical and operant conditioning. These are the sort
> of things that intelligence is about, not the crap that you are
> peddling.
Whoever you are, I agree, to a point...except the part about crap
peddling of course. Try reading the paper. If you still don't like it,
publish a reply in an appropriate peer reviewed forum.