[Wittrs] Is Homeostasis the Answer? (Re: Variations in the Idea of Consciousness)

  • From: "BruceD" <blroadies@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:44:20 -0000

--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@...> wrote:

> A computer based AI system (at least as invisioned by most AI people)
> does not do "symbolizing the ground".  That's what is missing.

I'm unfamiliar with "symbolizing the ground." Could you take a moment
and explain what this phrase means?

> What I have said, is that when attempting to come up with an AI
account of cognition, I ran into
> problems that I could not solve with computation but which could  be
solved with homeostasis.

I would like to get a better grasp of the contrast here between "solving
with computation" vs. "with homeostasis."

Thanks,

bruce


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