John Mark Bishop

@kanair @Dr_Cuspy I am intrigued @kanair. I have a two input one output cmos gate and when I test it does the following four functions: 0v 0v => 0v 0v 5v => 0v 5v 0v => 0v 5v 5v => 5v What physically realized computational structure is intrinsic to this system?

I wrote the original post exactly because I think the argument in this paper is wrong (or naive). Yes, semantic labels may depend on interpretation. But the causal organization of a computer does not. Voltages, memory states, gates, recurrent dynamics, and internal state transitions causally constrain future states whether or not we call them symbols. The key distinction is: observer-relative interpretation ≠ intrinsic computational organization. A map needs a mapmaker. A mechanism does not. So the real question is not whether symbols magically cause consciousness, but whether a physical system instantiates the right intrinsic causal, dynamical, integrated, and geometric organization. I’m currently working on a fuller paper on this, which I call intrinsic computational functionalism, which can be stated as follows: Consciousness, if computationally constituted, depends on physically realized computational structures that are intrinsic to the system, not on externally imposed semantic interpretations.

I often hear arguments that simulated consciousness cannot be real consciousness. But these arguments often miss the point that simulations are physically instantiated in a computer with real causal dynamics. It is not like a fictional character with no internal mechanisms.

@Docstockk @TimesRadio @KatyJonWent Dear Kathleen. I am a retired Professor (from Goldsmiths) who would very much like to contact you; if you see this and have a minute, please can you contact me. Many thanks.

I’ll be on @TimesRadio with @KatyJonWent around 8.45am, talking about the TV documentary we are both in, Gender Wars (tonight, channel 4, 10pm!)

@kr1664uk @Docstockk Thanks; unfortunately i don’t know another way, so am a bit stuck

@ProfJMarkBishop @Docstockk Chances she will read this are limited. I'd contact a different way.

Gender Wars on channel 4, starting now….

Can’t believe this happened 👀 merci @museelouvre ! #JRauLouvre

@rodgerkibble ... I think I just need to avoid Twitter :)

Today was the day that “#Brexit means #Brexit”; May’s presciently strange RECURSIVE definition of a term THAT NEVER BOTTOMS OUT :)

@rodgerkibble .. @rodgerkibble, simply meant as a jokey reference to Brexit never ending, but if you have to spell-out a joke it clearly ain’t that funny :)

HELP! If anyone has a download, please can you email me a copy/preprint of this :)

And in a Folkscene first, sharing the title of album of the year are @TheWillowsBand and @MishapedPearls both great albums to add to our collection. Happy New Year and see you in 2019!

@tom_c_hobson @rodgerkibble @drkatedevlin @j2bryson @yjerden Or as the Bish might put it <youtu.be/yxPr_AmYrBY>

#GWR alongside around five other businessmen & women, just been denied the opportunity to buy an on-train upgrade on the 2:15 to Cardiff from Paddington when I’d banked on working en route; Irritating and does not leave a warm glow around #GWR customer care wrt business travel..

London Funzing gig coming up <facebook.com/events/2287918…>

@drkatedevlin Lovely aphorism; gonna nick :)

@marcogillies Nice story !!

I just published “AI is not a technology” medium.com/p/ai-is-not-a-…

@etienneroesch Kate! Someone blagged your byline :)

It is not often that you are obliged to proclaim a much-loved genius wrong, but in his alarming prediction on artificial intelligence I believe #StephenHawking erred. To be precise –in an echo of Schrödinger’s cat– he was simultaneously wrong and right. <tinyurl.com/jhm2s5m>

@j2bryson @demishassabis @BBCNewsnight @jjvincent @ericschmidt I highlighted this to icrac yesterday too :(

When @demishassabis said joining Google was OK if they avoided the US military, I told @BBCNewsnight that was an #aiethics red herring. But @jjvincent's new article isn't. @ericschmidt (& a general) scared me more than anyone else in 2017, which is a lot. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2018/03/dont-b…