Steve Wozniak: The Future of AI Is 'Scary and Very Bad for People'

[hunter]

145. That's not what I said.

Human memory isn't all that deep. We "remember" very little except in a very compressed and highly associative way. There are a lot of artifacts in the human memory, like the blockiness one sees in a highly compressed jpg image.

The "model" Hunter, perhaps an android, created from his memories would at first behave in a manner that was statistically identical to the way a flesh-and-blood Hunter might have behaved. As time went on, this behavior would diverge in a human hunter-like fashion.

That's the short "Star Trek" version of my thoughts.

On a deeper level I think time itself is not what most people think it is. I suspect the past is as shifty and as mutable as the future is, and only the present exists. But that present time is not the "present" we experience as consciousness. The conscious "present time" is offset into the shifty past, which can be verified by experiment in very simplistic ways, but I think what's going on there is a lot more complicated than that.

If you are into radio theory, I can make a simple analogy: The present time is the carrier frequency, the past is one sideband and the future is the other. Our minds and nervous systems are a sophisticated signal processor, and our "consciousness" exists on the sideband representing the past and is an emergent property of the signal processing itself.