I'm obsessed with the idea of Darwin Machines (and I think you should be too).
I've been tinkering with the idea in python but I just don't have enough ML experience.
If you, or anyone you know, is interested in Darwin Machines please reach out!
I've been tinkering with the idea in python but I just don't have enough ML experience.
If you, or anyone you know, is interested in Darwin Machines please reach out!
A system cannot feel, but we can map neurochemistry as mechanistically as any other process. It would be interesting to discover whether a "pure brain" exists, or whether even its inputs, when considered in whole, colored its nature.
I could imagine a Darwin Machine being a "pure brain", as you put it. While we have emotions because our brains built a pure brain atop an existing and messy infrastructure.
Or, emotions could just be the subjective experience of thoughts competing.
Calvin goes deeper into things like this in the book, but I suspect emotions help intelligence to some extent insofar as they provide environmental change. It's good for the long term health of an ecosystem to shake things up so that nothing gets too stagnant.
Fear, authority, or what it identifies it as. I assume it will need to diagnose and repair itself, so will need to reflect. Who knows, maybe just fiction.