By "prior" I assume you mean "previous"?
He might mean......
That's all we can ever do: guess.
By guess did you mean estimate?
(A silly, MikeG styled query)
Well I don't intend to impress anybody... [...]
Your words remind me of Dexter Morgan's sister's cursing on the "Dexter" series: "Christ on a ******** cracker".
If I drew a small sample of my exchange with Bengio, it would have been more valuable than almost the sum total/a great majority of my exchanges here.
I already approached halley's concern, here:
No, unlike you, I know what words mean. I chose the one I wanted.
Why do you persist, then? Seriously -- and no offense intended, I'm genuinely curious -- I've often wondered why your type insists on spending hours and hours spewing your stuff on here. There are quite a few here, and the forum would have been poorer (in terms of entertainment) if that club didn't make an appearance here, but what motivates them to keep on posting here despite the constant ridicule? Now I realize you can't speak for the others in the club, so forget the club, but what about you?
Max Tegmark, probably has a better grasp than you on this topic, and as Max Tegmark expressed in a youtube video here, physicists have long neglected to define the observer in much of the equations. (The observer being the intelligent agent)
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So only you can choose the ones you want?....( well, you and your comrades here)
Are you taking the quantum computing route because you believe that consciousness and quantum mechanics are linked (eg, it is not possible to produces consciousness on a classical computer, a quantum computer is required)?
While consciousness is probably achievable on a configuration of classical systems, that route alone would likely be bulky and impractical.
So you'd prefer to do completely theoretical work on the topic, designing things for systems that don't exist rather than actually carrying out the work using a classical system and building something bulky and impractical. Got it.
It's a true excerpt. From a gmail exchange. Mostly one-way, him sending me e-mails. That time I responded. Usually I find it difficult to understand what he means in his messages.