You can create computer in mind, Can you create mind in computer?

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I don’t know, but this experiment will get us there.

Write a program that learns to read. Dump it all information we have to computer, let it fact check it, visualise it, reach singularity, export itself into a folded program in a bootable pendrive. Boot a computer with this pendrive and watch the show.

I’m aware we do not have current technology to get there, and I’m also told this is the problem big companies are tying to solve. I have been talking about this but very recently I was able to put it in words and thats a start. I’m fascinated by what computers do from my childhood and always get disappointed when looking at it. There is plenty of opportunity to create with a computer. But as I grew older I got to know more about it and lost the original ideas I had and happy that I was able to put one such idea in words.

During my first computer lab visit I was curious to find out how numbers are represented and calculated. I was curious about the words/strings and I was disappointed looking at ASCII and other techniques. It is just a work around.

Only command that is truth about computer is MOV. Every other command is repetition of this. I learnt this when I learnt BASIC.

few years back I started relearning things I learnt and started with an assumption that every man creation is fundamentally flawed. I started with that assumption and realised that computer is a product of mathematicians. I have been a math fan until I realised its flaws. Though it makes you sound smart, math is just a smart person’s way to convince other person with numbers. From this I learnt a lesson that whenever a smart person provides a solution, its easy to get carried away. So I got stronger in rejecting / proving others or me wrong.

I knew I cant find truths about science from books written in last century so I started going back. newmann computing model has a flaw. Basically I see computer as a calculator. It is not, but keeps my foundation strong to create something else. I got back on bible.

I found the answer which came first, light or sound.

I found answer about how similar minds and ideas group at a place.

I wanted to mimic that in a computer because learning from religious books is more pure than learning from human books - atleast this century.

I recently realised that persian mathematician laid foundation as per Why algorithms are called algorithms | BBC Ideas - YouTube. It strengthen me as it is a proof that computer creation is idea from Alan and he took from Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

Back to my question You can create computer in mind, Can you create mind in computer? It is a question that I created for myself not to get lost and start over.

and this experiment Write a program that learns to read. Dump it all information we have to computer, let it fact check it, visualise it, reach singularity, export itself into a folded program in a bootable pendrive. Boot a computer with this pendrive and watch the show. is just to have something created in computer that will either find truths on its own or lets me help it to find truths.

Thanks for taking time to read this. I really appreciate it. I work as web developer, built a code generator and picking up my next challenge. GitHub - imvetri/ui-editor: Concept, ReactJS Code Generator, Drag and drop builder.

-Vetrivel.

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The representation of something is not the same as the thing being represented. For example if I write “water” that symbol does not have any of the properties of water. If I put the symbol inside a computer program this does not add any of the properties of water. If I create a simulation of a drop of water in the computer then the representation is more complicated than a single word but it does not have any of the properties of water. When I look at the simulation I see water but that is an experience of water in my mind not inside the computer. It is the same effect when I read the word water written on the page of a book.

While we have no scientific understanding of words like mind or consciousness, I think it is fair to say that whatever those words represent they refer to properties that are not inherent in the representation (in the same way the word “water” is not wet).

The modern scientific religion (which is not the same as the scientific process) leads people to believe in the magical power of “computation” to bridge the gap between simulation (the representation of something) and emulation (the physical instantiation of something). While those believing in this religion will mostly agree that a simulation of water is not itself wet, they will argue that a term they cannot define (mind/consciousness) must exist inside a computer program that they have no idea how to construct.

Earlier religions have similar dynamics e.g. a word written in a book is given magical properties as if the book is not representing something but is the thing itself.

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If you were to write your system and be successful in the creation of the next evolution of intelligence, do you then become god ?

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Well… from “mind’s perspective” what we call "property X of Y " might be not much more than a symbol in our mind. What we consider “real” is the correlation with our ability to make reliable predictions/models about … “symbolic stuff”.

Wetness as redness is mind stuff not something objectively roaming out there.

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Your title is ‘Creator’ and whether you are the machine’s god is debatable and up to it. My guess is that an intelligent, read sentient, machine will quickly deduce the frailty and ignorance of the Homo genus and act accordingly. Might be benevolent, could certainly be malevolent.

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A theme explored in countless Sci-Fi stories. Usually makes for a good read.

To be a god, you first have to create an intelligence with a role for a god. Then you have to arrange to fill that god role before the intelligence creates its own (as we have).

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