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Article #196Hypnosis and the Intelligent Robot
From: Mentifex
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 00:00
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<a href="http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/aisource.html"> Mind.forth </a> although still incomplete is in its 5.may.1998 tenth Web release. Some features are stubbed into robot Mind.forth not in order to implement their probably undesirable functionality but rather so as to illustrate where such mechanisms of mind would fit in, e.g.: Screen # 86 ram:cyborg -------------------------------- 0 \ <a name="trance1"> TRANCE not implemented </a> 980505atm 1 2 \ There is no intention here to make TRANCE a feature of the 3 \ AI mind of intelligent robots. Instead, TRANCE is mentioned 4 \ only in order to show its place within a Theory of Mind. 5 6 \ The theory speculates that hypnosis works by suggesting to 7 \ a subject mind that it is asleep, i.e, in a condition where 8 \ any experience, such as a dream, is to be interpreted as true 9 \ WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE DREAM. But since the hypnotized 10 \ mind is actually not asleep, it ill-advisedly trusts the 11 \ hypnotist and lends full credence to suggestions, resulting 12 \ in <a href="#trip1"> HALLUCINATION </a> -- a mental feature 13 \ which we are not eager to implement in a trustworthy robot. 14 15 \ TRANCE if implemented would return to Main Program Loop MIND. --------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,e1616ceb37624ce6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 10d07c,e1616ceb37624ce6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d07c,public X-Google-Thread: f537a,e1616ceb37624ce6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf537a,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,e1616ceb37624ce6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 112d72,e1616ceb37624ce6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112d72,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca9b,e1616ceb37624ce6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca9b,public From: mentifex@scn.org (Mentifex) Subject: Hypnosis and the Intelligent Robot Date: 1998/05/06 Message-ID: <354fc439.0@news.victoria.tc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 350631105 Summary: A conscious, thinking robot would be subject to hypnotic trance. Organization: Operation Mind.forth of Project Mentifex Keywords: Neural Correlates of Consciousness, Unified Theory of Cognition Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis,alt.extropians,alt.psychology.nlp,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.robotics.misc