Obstacles

[ThazzarBaal]

I owned a robot when I was a kid. It was a very simple design and somewhat self referential in navigation. It was cool. Another one had to be programmed and was unable to self correct itself via sensory modules. Humans operate via sensory perception, a self referential type of navigating operations through our nervous system. It was a touch and go and very basic self referential correcting system, but it was cool. $50.00 for the self correcting and nearly $100 for the one needing to be programmed. I preferred the self correcting one over the more expensive type. The issue was that it was unable to map out the territory or learn...nope ... It was just touch and go.

Question: Could a nervous system like our own be incorporated into a machine with the ability to self refer to it's unique memory base for greater ability? The memory of my self referential robot wasn't even on par with a gnat, so it was very limited

Also, isn't subjective reality an integral aspect of intelligence?

 

[C C]

[...] Also, isn't subjective reality an integral aspect of intelligence?

Well, when "reality" is appended to the adjective, it may hamper an alternative attempt to define "subjective" as personal perspectives, biases and self-interests that could be purely mediated by language and somatic action (without reference to qualitative feelings and other hidden "showings"). Which consequently still takes us into the territory of...

The thought experiment of a p-zombie (below), where in theory such a human or space alien could display all the communication and body behavior of a conventional organism experiencing private manifestations (of the external world and their own thoughts) -- but minus such actually being the case. Yet if a p-zombie was ever encountered and somehow vetted as true, such in turn would seem to justify that subjectivity can be mediated wholly by "invisibly interacting" physical affairs that normally (without phenomenal consciousness) lack the capacity to present themselves as any kind of "misleading" mental appearance or representation.

Although the term "zombie" was employed to make a scholarly point in a particular context, it is also recruited to refer to any "either sapient-like or animal-like" entity that is assumed to lack experiences (an ordinary robot or AI of today, for instance). Which is to say, there's probably not a better word around for the latter usage, and the original philosophical argument can hardly claim exclusive ownership of "zombie" (since Haitian and Central African folklore, and B&W era Hollywood, long predated the West's academic appropriation).

Philosophical zombie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

Blindsight (novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
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