I was not thinking about a thermostat. What I had in mind was a mind design like that of a human but reduced to its essential complexity. For example, you can probably reduce the depth and width of the object recognition by dealing with a block world. You can reduce auditory processing to deal with text directly. I’m not sure to what degree you can do that with the remaining parts but I see no reason it wouldn’t work with memory. For consciousness, my guess would be that the size of the representation of the global workspace scales with the other parts. I do think that consciousness should be easily simulatable with existing hardware in such an environment. If we figure out how to wire things right.
I was not thinking about a thermostat. What I had in mind was a mind design like that of a human but reduced to its essential complexity. For example, you can probably reduce the depth and width of the object recognition by dealing with a block world. You can reduce auditory processing to deal with text directly. I’m not sure to what degree you can do that with the remaining parts but I see no reason it wouldn’t work with memory. For consciousness, my guess would be that the size of the representation of the global workspace scales with the other parts. I do think that consciousness should be easily simulatable with existing hardware in such an environment. If we figure out how to wire things right.