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Why are you thinking? You are anticipating various scales of "the future", using memories of past events. As computers try to anticipate the future more, they
by hunta2097 7y ago
Why are you thinking? You are anticipating various scales of "the future", using memories of past events.
As computers try to anticipate the future more, they may also start to "experience" things.
- egjerlow 7y agoThat's one of the uses of thinking, yes, but it's hardly the only one, unless by some procrustean method you force all my thoughts to 'really' be about the future. In which case I'd say the statement is close to devoid of meaning. Furthermore, thinking and consciousness is not the same thing.
- hunta2097 7y agoI think I based my initial thoughts on this paper (or a citation of): http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/AnticipationControl.pdf http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/AnticipationControl.pdf