Suppose ‘consciousness’ could be defined as the ability of a ‘being that can learn’ to understand how its self learns. Thus it then has to ‘decide’, a rudimentary idea in our perception of ‘consciousness’.
I think this explains to a degree then our ‘personality’ which we use to direct our experiences in the world and thus our learning. We, in a manner, feed our learning what it likes best: pleasurable experiences.
If this is true, what does it say about the ‘Turing test’ and there for the way forward for AI research.
I was sitting on the grass in the park at Boxhagener Plaz yesterday with Melissa and Emma, and having a chat in the sun. We were approached by a plainly dresses nice young Indian girl who then proceeded to tell us about her “organization” that raises money to save the forests by making porn with random strangers in the bush. It took a few moments to get our heads around the idea, and we had to think about wether we wanted to… contribute. She said they were “fighting for what we belived in and having fun at the same time”. It seemed resonable when she put it that way. Hippys having fun?
It raised the question that I have been thinking about since I worked on a certain gay dating website: “Can porn be used for good?”. I guess everyone has to decided for themselves.
But try and say three times fast: “Fucking Forest Fuckers”
Update
There is a conference in Berlin that could find an answer to these question. I would like to fond out the intellectual stance on it these days. I guess it doesn’t matter how you reason it, its all about the vibe.
Just figured out this regular expression to remove all tables from a HTML document:
</?table[^>]*>|</?tr[^>]*>|</?td[^>]*>|</?thead[^>]*>|</?tbody[^>]*>
Extreamly useful for cleaning up prehistoric markup with a text editor that supports regular expression find-and-replace searches.
And to go all the way, this one removes font tags too:
</?table[^>]*>|</?tr[^>]*>|</?td[^>]*>|</?thead[^>]*>|</?tbody[^>]*>|</?font[^>]*>