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On 11/16/12 9:14 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:<br>
> I will be quite interested to attend your Brain-Mind
conference, assuming my schedule permits.... So please let me know
when it's announced ;)<br>
> 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...<br>
> thanks<br>
> ben<br>
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Dear Ben,<br>
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There are two sides. <br>
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For conference popularity, you probably do not insist on
discussion about brain mechanisms although they are desirable.<br>
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.<br>
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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:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/press.html">http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/press.html<br>
</a><br>
Best,<br>
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-John
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