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C00002 00002	     ON THE NATURE OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THEORY OF MIND.
C00006 00003	2.0	Hardware Systems of an Intellectual Entity.
C00008 00004	3.0	Software Systems: the Robot's Mind.
C00010 00005	4.0	The Self. The Sentient Conscious Mind.
C00012 00006	The Impact of a Theory of Intellect.
C00019 00007	Identifying and Overcoming the Homocentric Prejudice.
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C00024 00009	4. The nature or the soul.
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     ON THE NATURE OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THEORY OF MIND.

                          Bruce g. Baumgart
0.0	Introduction.

	Assuming that the brain is like a  computer and that the mind
is like  computer software, I wish to  speculate on exactly what data
structures and programs could give rise to counsciousness. My purpose
is not to confront the person who doesn't believe (or doesn't wish to
consider)  the  computer analogy  of mind;  my  purpose is  rather to
pursue the implications  of taking the analogy seriously.  Unfortunately,
the detailed construction  of sophisticated artificial  mind software
(or  the  reading of  natural mind  software)  can not  be  done with
present day technology, 1974; so in that sense this paper  is fantasy
science, conjectures are made and hung in the air unsupported.

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1.0	The Grand Artificial Intelligence Reseach Scenerio.

	Consider   the    following   dream   scenerio:    Artificial
Intelligence  research  suddenly  becomes  the  single  top  national
priority; that  in order  to beat  the Russians,    Chinese,   Energy
Crisis,   Cancer  and so  on; nearly  unlimited resources  (up to  30
gigadollars   per  year)  are  to  be   directed  to  building  truly
intelligent and conscious  and benevolent computer robots,   whatever
that might mean exactly.  The requirements for the robot are somewhat
vague and broad: the robot is expected to be at least as smart as  an
average human, to  sing and dance,  to  speak,  to program,  to think
and to do  well on the verbal and mathematical college entrance board
tests as well as the graduate record tests as well as on Turing tests
and so  on. The national  director of A.I.   (a General  Groves type)
likes  you;  and so  will support  your  particular line  of research
(which he doesn't really understand); how will you proceed ?

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2.0	Hardware Systems of an Intellectual Entity.

	I would proceed  by viewing the  desired robot as  a computer
system; and  that the design goal is that the  system is to be like a
man. Since  it will be  convenient to  be able  to refer  to to  men,
animals,  computers,  robots,   cyborgs and androids collectively,  I
will use  the term "intellectual entity".  An intellectual entity, is
a physical object  that has the  appropriate organs of power  supply,
memory,  thought processing,  input and  output; to  enable effective
mind like action in the physical world.  In order to get started,   I
would divide  the robot system  into sub systems  by crossing  a high
school biology definition  of life into the hardware requirements for
a Mars explorer.

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	| Hardware Sub Systems of an Intellectual Entity:	|
	|							|
	|		1. Power Supply.			|
	|		2. Perception.				|
	|		3. Locomotion.				|
	|		4. Manipulation.			|
	|		5. Computation.				|
	|		6. Communication.			|
	|		7. Replication.				|
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3.0	Software Systems: the Robot's Mind.

	The  mind of  the robot  is  a system  of  programs and  data
structures;  that is  the  mind is  the software  of  an intellectual
entity. There is of  course the usual nomensclature confusion  having
to do with emulating or simulating hardware; but the confusion can be
avoided  by observing that at the very  bottom there is real hardware
and  at  the   very  top  there  is   real  software  and  that   the
hardware/software  trade offs  for  processors in  between  is not  a
system design question but a question of economic implementation.

	A second issue of nomensclature concerns whether the software
is being executed or not; as I have defined it, mind is not a process
in the computer sense of the word "process" but is rather  a program;
that allows us to  say that the mind is running  or not running (whether
the mind is conscious or unconscious will be a different more restricted
thing).

	Memory structures.
		Self Model.
		World Model Quantitative.
		World Model Qualitative.
		Language Models
		Dictionary, Encyclopedia
		Programs

	Programs.
		Clock.
		Interrupt.
		Job Scheduling & Resource Allocation.
		Self Programmer.
		Program Execution.
4.0	The Self. The Sentient Conscious Mind.

	The most  inescapible physical,  philosophical and  religious
question is:  who and what the fuck am I  ? The existence of yourself
as the prime observer is  the most immediate and unavoidable fact  of
life.

	Interrupt dispatch routine
	self grip: safety, emotion, attention, immediate goal,
		job scheduling, resource allocator
	reality grip: time & place, current external context,

	Ego unity principle underlying subjective experience.
	Immediate perceptions: pain, emotion, concept.

The stream of consciousness:
	self dialogue, attention mechanism,
	privacy ? uniqueness.
	knows, remembers, desires, suffers pain (pleasure)
	goal evaluator,

	Difference between a conscious act and a sub-conscious act.

The Impact of a Theory of Intellect.
	
	The attainment  of a  TECHNICAL theory  of intelligence  will
have  a massive  impact on  human existence. At  present,   there are
several areas of  research relating to  intellectual systems.   There
are   cybernetic,    genetic,   psychological,    physiological   and
philosophical  approachs;  there  is also  the  dichotomy  between so
called "natural" and "artificial" intelligence research.  However,  I
wish  to  speculate for  a  moment on  what  happens  when all  these
intelligence researchers  find the  knowledge  for which  they  seek,
when the phenomena of intelligence arising in  genes and silicon is
well  understood  and  a  corresponding  intelligence  technology  is
available.

	A theory of intelligence,  like the Copernician and Darwinian
theories, will further reduce the self centered divinity in mankind's
image of himself. The  mind and soul of man will  be exposed to study
and  modification  and  man  will no  longer  be  the  culmination of
evolution, but will replace himself with better intellectual entities
some of  which will grow out  of individual men  who build themselves
into androids; other  entities will be  built by men  as robots;  and
finally androids and robots will replicate themselves and others.

	A  theory of  intelligence  will  have  a massive  affect  on
national, international, political and military affairs. Like nuclear
physics, a theory of intelligence  has a number of atomic bombs  that
will become accessible even before  the whole theory takes shape. For
better  and for worse there will be  the potential of robot soldiers,
super minds,    bio-engineering,   monsters,   oracles,    disasters,
immortality, interstellar space  travel,  genetic modification, brain
modification,  group  intelligence,  inter  mind  communication,  and
transmigration of souls.

	The impact of a theory of intelligence on mankind will exceed
the scientific,  social and philosophical impact of the atomic  bomb,
Darwin,  the steam engine,  Copernicus,  the printing press,  Christ,
fire  and agriculture.   A  massive landing  of extra  terrestials is
humdrum when compared  to the implications of  knowing the nature  of
intelligence.
Identifying and Overcoming the Homocentric Prejudice.

	1. Star Trek Transporter Trauma.
	2. Software soul.
	3. Transmigration of souls.
	4. Definition of death.

1. The mind is a finite hierarcy of processors.

	The homiculum  theory  of intellect  is essentially  correct.
Within the head of the larger man is a set of smaller men; and within
the head of each  small man there  are yet smaller men;  and so on  a
finite number  of times until  there is a  last level of  very simple
little men.

2. Mind is to matter as software is to hardware.

	The mind is a program running in the hardware of the brain.
So in order to grasp the  relation between mental events and
physical events; we must investigate  the relation between software
and hardware.
	
	The physicist, Richard Feynman, lectured that although an electron
does not act entirely like a particle and light does not act entirely like
a wave, there is one consolation: light and electrons act like each other.
Men do not act entirely like angels; computers do not act entirely like
simple machines; however men and computers act like each other.

3. The free will illusion.

4. Emotions.
	Love - hate.
4. The nature or the soul.
	Transmigration of souls: over telephone.
	Simu-Man vs. Mind Transfer.

5. Privacy of mental events fallacy.

	The conjecture is stated that the mental events of an
intellectual entity are absolutely private. That 
To "simulate" pain is different than to "experience" pain.

The alternative is that any number of gods, demons, telepaths and
cyber-neuro-surgeons can read and live in an individual's mind.

What will it take to convince you that an external intellectual
entity is fully aware of your mental events.