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Everyone in the comments seems to be quickly attributing consciousness directly to a sufficiently connected deterministic system. This seems to guarantee a dete
by tedkimble 15y ago
Everyone in the comments seems to be quickly attributing consciousness directly to a sufficiently connected deterministic system. This seems to guarantee a deterministic view of life, which I find troubling.
Have any of you thought of the role of the nodes themselves? I find Stewart Kauffman's recent work intriguing [PDF]: http://stuartkauffman.com/index_25_1612352741.pdf http://stuartkauffman.com/index_25_1612352741.pdf
- ak217 15y agoThat author, like everyone else I've ever heard argue against the basic connectionism/neurobiology first principles model, takes a bit of biology, a bit of physics, and then throws in philosophical crap that has nothing to do with science, engineering, or any reasonable way to analytically understand the brain. This mixing of science and navel-gazing is useless.