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We've had technology like poetry, art, and music for thousands of years, and yet no symbolic description of the feeling can contain the feeling of what it's uni
by gizajob 5y ago
We've had technology like poetry, art, and music for thousands of years, and yet no symbolic description of the feeling can contain the feeling of what it's uniquely like for me. Even though we could try and model the brain, say, functionalist models fail to capture qualia as it doesn't reduce to behaviour. To replicate the brain fully in a computer would need a full description of its chemistry and physics, along with that of the greater universe, which we don't have, and to describe it coherently to simulate it is a problem of the order of magnitude more difficult than ones we're going to be able to code for the foreseeable future.
- Sweetness 5y agoI agree that it'll be while before we fully understand the brain but I don't have any doubts that we'll get there eventually. I am curious though, why would we need to understand the greater universe perfectly as well?
- gizajob 5y agoWhere does the brain get its inputs from? These computational models are based on an ontology where the brain is an isolated box separate from the universe, which is only one of the many philosophical outlooks argued over. For example, most schools of Buddhist philosophy would regard this separation as entirely the wrong picture of the world.