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Overcoming Misconceptions
There is a strong quest for mental tools capable to support us in process of decisions making and operations control.
Comparably recently new branch of science and industry named “Artificial Intelligence” devoted to that purpose was come into existence.
All research in the AI is based on mutual acceptations of the terms like consciousness, cognitive, intelligent, understanding, believes, emotional, experienced, knowledgeable, and so an, without scientific analyzing of existence of such phenomena.
These terms are attributed to the systems. They are just analogs to the given names. The process of attributions is based on an observable behavior of the system.
Thereof it is natural to base the approach to design of the systems by normal to the science approach, on the observable properties of the designed system, which is behavior.
The tempting question, which was given to me by many: “So, in accordance to your point of view we are unconscious?” has the simple answer: “We are behaving in the way were we are deserved to be named conscious”.
This name is just decoration on our chest which is provided by ourselves to ourselves.
(In the light of this explanation the industry name "Artificial Intelligence" is the convincing proof of misunderstanding of a subject).
Intelligence is the given name and thereof can’t be artificial.
As I have state above, it is much better to use some definable, through the observable properties of a system, term.
The term reasonable, for example, could be defined as following:
The system could be named “Reasonable” if it is capable to define its own behavior being guided by its own subjective representations about the World accessible to it.
As one could learn from that definition, it is covered all live creatures and by that provide the clear criteria for separation of live creature from dead matter.
So, what we could learn from observation of live creatures, or for short “systems”?
System is generating some behavior which is aimed on the World. The reason for it is to bring the World into the state subjectively pleasant for the system.
In additions let me point out that majority of research in AI are keeping in background implicit believes that it is possible to build a model of human body with some level of preciseness, and by improving the preciseness reach the level were performance of thinking will be possible. this is good way to provide the proof that this is possible to accomplish, but not to follow.
Intuitively I have to take different way. It is much easy to build an artificial system for modeling behavior of live creatures, instead of modeling the body to get the same.
The demonstration program which show that it is possible to convert a conventional computers into the system capable to demonstrate reasonable behavior without referring to the vague terms like consciousness, understanding, intelligent and so an, could be provided on demand and found on internet from different athors.
That kind of the system could be designed to be driven by motivation from foreign to it source and perform to full extent of associated with it hardware capabilities.
Best regards, Michael Zeldich
