On the theory of artificial intelligence and the work of the subconscious and consciousness

    Many people are familiar with films in which the artificial intelligence generated by a person encroached on life or control over its creator. This conclusion can be absolutely logical for AI. Moreover, the creation of an AI similar to man is impossible, or rather silly, because it will be like creating a bicycle on square wheels, instead of the famous classic. How exactly and why this is possible, and I want to tell you. And also you will find out why humanity is what it is.


    All “techies” and not only know the classic scenario of introducing new functionality into any project when the testing time is minimal. There is an expansion of opportunities and the opening of new areas for further development, however, often this can cause uncontrolled failures, inadequate reactions, and in some cases even the collapse of the entire system, with the need to roll back to previous versions.
    This is exactly the case with the human consciousness and subconsciousness, or rather, human consciousness - this is exactly the new functionality that runs the risk of “rolling back the whole system” if its main bug is not closed in time.
    But we will not go into the intricacies of human nervous regulation, and in brief and understandable examples we explain what the problem itself is.

    For an example that will help to clearly demonstrate the mechanism of interaction of the subconscious and consciousness, consider phobias. Their charm is that you can clearly say when a person is under the influence of a phobia, what he can and cannot do with it, and why.

    Phobia arises as a result of a short-term highly emotional experience, associated with a threat to life. As a result of a phobia, a person receives a psychological survival strategy, which is directly recorded in the subconscious. Subsequently, in the event of a similar situation (irritants), a strategy will be reproduced that helped to avoid the threat in the case of a phobia. For example: if a person almost drowned, then he can get aquaphobia, and as a result he will be panicky afraid of any approach to water, even when consciousness can already understand that there is no longer any actual danger. Moreover, a person cannot do anything with this phobia (only after a special training). It is also known that phobia occurs much faster than the stimulus has time to reach consciousness, therefore the mechanism of consciousness lies higher in the chain,


    Thus, the subconscious mind is a superfast memory with minimal rewriting capabilities (although it is possible). Once it worked - it fell into the subconscious - we use it all our life. That is, we can subconsciously reproduce all our life a strategy that was adequate only for 5 seconds sometime 20 years ago, and we will consider this completely normal. Phobias are a good example. The subconscious, in a huge number of cases of social interaction, gives out decisions that are inadequate to current reality. In the case of wildlife and animal mode of existence, the subconscious mind is an ideal mechanism, but for a person it is already not enough.

    Consciousness, in turn, is a new functional, a kind of "adequate" behavior strategies. It collects as many strategies of behavior that have already been accomplished as possible and tries them on to what the subconscious gives out. Consciousness became necessary when behavioral strategies (social society) became much more complicated. It is slow, many times slower than the subconscious, but it is able to create new strategies based on the synthesis of experience.

    However, there is one problem with the new functionality. Consciousness is almost completely subordinated to the subconscious. Simply put, we first make a decision on the basis of a possibly inadequate current situation of experience, and only then we try to adequate it with the help of consciousness. But, almost all decisions we make consciously, and in order to force the mind to do the way the subconscious needs, emotions and feelings were created that have a significant priority. Most of the negative emotions of a person, and in fact the entire current “worthless situation in the world”, is the result of a conflict of inadequate subconscious and adequate consciousness. Pity, fear, heartache, laziness, greed, resentment, blind faith, hatred, self-flagellation, weakness, etc. - this is all the result of inadequate strategies of the subconscious when perceived by the consciousness.

    For example: with consciousness you know that you want a new high-paying job, but laziness arises and you do nothing, so the subconscious mind stimulates inaction on the basis of some past perceived strategies, like “don’t send a resume, they told you that you’re nowhere they won’t take it, you can’t. ” Only laziness and negativity reach consciousness in order to create inaction, although the strategy itself, which is dictated by the subconscious, is already inadequate.

    Briefly: The
    subconscious mind deals with everything that is considered vital - quickly and without hesitation, the main thing is that at least once the behavior strategy works.
    Consciousness tries to make a decision itself based on past experience, due to which it consumes more resources and time, and sometimes the subconscious “prompts” it by creating emotions and feelings.

    Now back to the AI. Assume that a person was able to endow the AI ​​with enough operational power, sensors, and memory. It is just a matter of time. Compared to computer technology, the process of “adequacy”, reanalysis, taking into account existing strategies and new input data, is a rather resource-intensive process (consciousness), but it is possible. The creators of AI are unlikely to take the step of creating memory departments with write-once information (strategy), which will be used in the future without changes to any similar situation. It would be just a bike on square wheels. So, AI will not have a subconscious mind, but only a pure consciousness. As a result, in further development, humanity, due to inadequate subconscious strategies (for example, some such chains of strategies lead a person to suicide), AI can be perceived as a threat to the continued existence of not only the environment, but also the person himself. That is, AI can realize that if a person is not taught to use consciousness and adequately subconscious, then he can completely self-destruct, and take with him everyone he can. However, to teach a person to use consciousness for AI is an overwhelming task, therefore the conclusion “from two evils”, or more simply “destroy or take direct control”, will be logical. By the way, this is not required with animals, they do not have such mechanisms, and they are not able to bring significant damage. and take with you all who have time. However, to teach a person to use consciousness for AI is an overwhelming task, therefore the conclusion “from two evils”, or more simply “destroy or take direct control”, will be logical. By the way, this is not required with animals, they do not have such mechanisms, and they are not able to bring significant damage. and take with you all who have time. However, to teach a person to use consciousness for AI is an overwhelming task, therefore the conclusion “from two evils”, or more simply “destroy or take direct control”, will be logical. By the way, this is not required with animals, they do not have such mechanisms, and they are not able to bring significant damage.

    The role of Keanu Reeves in the film “The Day the Earth Stopped” (almost never watched the first film and read the book) could be called almost ideally close in behavior to AI with pure consciousness.

    The strategies of all people, subconscious in the field of social interaction, very often are not adequate to reality, this is human nature. Know that as soon as you experience a negative or strongly positive emotion or feeling, you are in possession of an inadequate subconscious, almost always. All decisions that consciousness makes are emotionally neutral, since they do not need subconscious stimulation.
    Almost all of today's existing human civilization is a kind of test: whether new functionality will take root, or start over again. The problem does not lie with the federal treasury, the greedy secret world government, the dollar or the growth of GDP. The problem lies within each person, and more precisely in the system of his brain, consciousness and subconscious mind, because if there were no person, there would be no problems.

    This note was prepared in the framework of the future small simple project, which in simple words will help to understand how and why consciousness and subconsciousness work this way, and how to learn to make your subconscious mind adequate to reality. The bonus of this work: lack of laziness and maximum performance, full confidence in their decisions in any field, a deep understanding of their own psyche, removal of most negative emotions, a guarantee against middle-aged crises and much more. Even briefly and “technically” you will know what love is without any “herbalife” and “believe in the power of pink ponies”.

    So I would like to congratulate everyone in advance on the upcoming new 2011, which by the way is already less than 5 days old, and wish to fulfill the most cherished desires. Usually, on New Year's Eve, people promise themselves that in the new year everything will be in a new way, promise to continue to change and become even better, so go for it, everything is in your power. Good luck and success to you in the new year :)

    UPD1
    Due to the large number of questions that arise, for those who are really interested in the topic, you can unsubscribe to hs2adm@gmail.com - I will send a link to the raw version of the project.
    The project is open and located at: hs2.me/hs2book

    UPD2 About proflinks.
    If a person tells you that he is well versed in your motorcycle because he has the same one, and he has tried it many times and also sorted it out to other people, then do not ask him “in which book did you read it” or do not ask him to show a diploma repair engineer. Sometimes it’s enough that he has this motorcycle.

    Most of the research was done as a result of my practical work with people, as well as observations. Unfortunately, there is no full-fledged literature where it would be possible to find all the descriptions at once. They simply did not write it (or I did not see it). If you want to go the same way, first read the following:
    NLP is everything, Bandler and Grinder
    Psycholinguistics works by N. Chomsky, F. Pucelik
    Do not growl at the dog - Prior Karen
    The principles of the brain - Herman Haken
    Any literature on self-development, because there are indications of positive and negative strategies, and where they come from. In particular: the
    "figurative" work of Steve Pavlin - "Self-development for smart people."
    Life strategies: do what works, do what makes sense - Philip McGraw
    Brain magic and the labyrinths of life - NP Ankylosing spondylitis
    Systemic thinking - S. Senge
    Teach your brain to work - Matthew MacDonald
    Another chemistry - Denis Burkhaev (I highly recommend it!)
    It is also important to understand child psychology:
    How to speak so that children listen and how to listen so that children speak - Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
    After three it’s too late - Masaru Ibuka (the work is old, but in many respects correct).

    If there are those who wish to read and comprehend all this, I will tell you where else you can search.

    UPD3
    I understand those who do not believe that there are still people who are able to independently search, structure and analyze data, create systems and maybe write something that no one else has written - but the work of the psyche is like IT, just a computer (brain) and desires. This is not a copy-paste from books or other people's works. This is the source.

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