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In what way do you think human consciousness is detached from the physical operation of the brain?
by rauljara 15y ago
In what way do you think human consciousness is detached from the physical operation of the brain?
- yread 15y agoInstincts, growing up, human experience. It's the software that makes us (in this case some preconfigured parameters and training data), the hardware is going to be dumb
- pavel_lishin 15y agoA large portion of our instincts are hard-wired. What about a sadly-not-too-hypothetical case of a child being raised in total isolation? Do they not possess consciousness?
- apl 15y ago> A large portion of our instincts are hard-wired. Not accurate, or at least misleading. There's a lot of plasticity in the brain even at the very basic levels. Raising a kitten in an atypical environment (e.g., without edges or contrast), for instance, yields profound functional differences from retinal ganglion cells over V1/V2 up to the dorsal and ventral streams of the visual system. We are what we are because our brains are hard-wired to adapt to typical environments. Full isolation would cause substantial aberrations -- that's exactly what you observe in real-world cases.
- EricBerglund 15y agoWhat do "software" and "hardware" even mean in the context of the brain? All of what you call "software" is just the result of combinations of neuron patterns and chemicals, all of which could be included in a simulation.
- Locke1689 15y agoCould and will are two completely separate things. As I said there is no research effort included in this project to attempt to discover those inputs.
- lwat 15y agoThe ghost in the shell
- Locke1689 15y agoSoftware.