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i don't know, we seem to make significant inroads into understanding every other physical system we've encountered - why not the brain? and "in the future" is
by exit 15y ago
i don't know, we seem to make significant inroads into understanding every other physical system we've encountered - why not the brain?
and "in the future" is a pretty broad time frame.
- disgruntledphd2 15y agoArguably (and this is a pretty out there view in neuroscience) because in this case, the instrument we're using to understand the physical system is itself the object of study. Throws up some interesting self referential problems.
- exit 15y agowe might make sense of our cognitive routines without really grasping how phenomenological experience arises. i still think that's enough for us to build ai which is equally perplexed by the blueness of a blue sky.