“Ways rationality can blend to irrationality - They are like spectrum’s but in code.”
Under most regular circumstances I do not believe one switches from rationality to irrationality in an instant. Like over the day how you are talking and thinking about many things as well as performing many actions then eventually you get tired. I imagine the rationality spectrum to change throughout the waking hours depending on many circumstances; during the sleeping hours our rationality would receive upgrades so to speak.
Yes randomness is an element. I will elaborate: Not by virtue of a random number generator as such but more subtle means - if you were to take each higher functionality as its own separate entity working as a type of swarm[planning, priority, reflection, flexibility, goals] with emotion and inhibition being drivers - there would be different amounts of the swarm elements in working memory and levels of emotion and inhibition driving these. It is these different amounts and levels that provide for the randomness and the pattern is ever changing. Sometimes you would get clusters of similar patterns showing up and other times there would even be paradoxical effects. The example given is not meant to model any being but is in itself a type of being - this stuff is like leggo and for that reason one has to bring ethics into the equation all the time before piecing configurations together.
Borrowing from Star Trek - you would first program into it what its prime directive is before any goals take place - this way if any of its goals conflict with this directive it would not attempt to complete the goal. Keeping track of which approaches have the best track record would come first after prime directive but before goals - if there are no approaches available then a prime effort is made - prime effort being an inception effort. All of the logic must remain “fuzzy” all of the time. Algorithms change over time - here we only use solid functions to spur on higher functions - the patterns are data - we have invented a data type that builds algorithms - data becomes the new programming language. What I am saying is more or less what you are saying but in some aspects reconfigured and reverse engineered.
Agreed - some people are very discerning when it comes to sophistry - I don’t always use conscious logic to become aware of BS which tells me that there is higher functioning going on unnoticed in all of us - a safeguard if you will.
It is this sort of thing that should way in on an ethics discussion. For instance I disagree with modelling bots on the brain - not only is it tremendously wasteful for processing and electricity but it is truly the long way around and at best you would for ever be emulating the brain and locking a mind to it - a mind stuck in a brain stuck in a machine - I only model the mind and that goes onto the machine(this brings up more ethics to be considered). I wont comment specifically any further on your discourse because I think it is pretty solid. Lastly everything we do comes with some sort of risk but it is responsibility that I am focusing on most of all - that is why I am here. I consider philosophy the perfect tool for working out the right from the wrong. In fact I am building a new philosophy around the bot mechanism - philosophy of the bot if you will; this philosophy necessarily includes ethics.