I’d like to recommend Ben Goertzel’s book from 2006Hidden Pattern, and particularly Chapter 2 “Kinds of Minds”. (The book is also available at the author’s site, but that may trigger SSL certificate warnings.)
We’ve come to understand that a future AGI may have non-anthropomorphic implementation and behavior, but this chapter situates possible minds in a variety of types of implementation and embodiment that I have not seen described elsewhere.
Specifically, p.17 compares
High-resource minds (like AIXI) or modest-resource
and among modest-resource minds
Embodied versus non, and within the “embodied” category: singly versus multiply versus flexibly embodied, and tool-dependent versus non
Mindplexes versus fully unified minds
Socially-dependent versus non
If there is other literature that enumerates and compares these and other kinds of minds, I’ll be glad to know.
Ben Goertzel’s “Kinds of Minds”
I’d like to recommend Ben Goertzel’s book from 2006 Hidden Pattern, and particularly Chapter 2 “Kinds of Minds”. (The book is also available at the author’s site, but that may trigger SSL certificate warnings.)
We’ve come to understand that a future AGI may have non-anthropomorphic implementation and behavior, but this chapter situates possible minds in a variety of types of implementation and embodiment that I have not seen described elsewhere.
Specifically, p.17 compares
and among modest-resource minds
If there is other literature that enumerates and compares these and other kinds of minds, I’ll be glad to know.