[Bmi] Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) vs. Understanding Brain-Mind

[Juyang Weng]

On 11/16/12 9:14 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
 > I will be quite interested to attend your Brain-Mind conference, 
assuming my schedule permits.... So please let me know when it's 
announced ;)
 > I agree that autonomous development is important for AGI. However, I 
don't agree that closely modeling the human brain is the only way to do 
autonomous development.  The AGI conference series is open to all 
approaches to the goal of AGI at the human level and beyond, whether 
brain-oriented or not...
 > thanks
 > ben

-------- Original Message --------
Date: 	Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:33:55 -0500
From: 	Juyang Weng <weng at cse.msu.edu>
To: 	Ben Goertzel <ben at goertzel.org>
Subject: 	Re: AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts, coming up at Oxford Dec 8-11


Dear Ben,

There are two sides.

For conference popularity, you probably do not insist on discussion 
about brain mechanisms although they are desirable.
For practical performance, after I have came up with a developmental of 
the brain-mind (not modeling functions, but more importantly, how 
functions arise from a simplified "genome" program) I understand that 
not paying attention on brain mechanisms is too costly to you since you 
will continuously follow behind in reaching your goal.   Your model has 
many fundamental limitations that you are not aware, based on my 
knowledge from our email discussions and some of your publications.

You will think very differently if you read a recent book, the first 
computational model, as far as I know, about how to computationally 
developing a brain-mind:
http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/press.html

Best,

-John


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