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We have such a poor understanding of our own consciousness that I think it's hard to answer that. We know a fair amount of what goes on in our heads and fundame
by rtkwe 4y ago
We have such a poor understanding of our own consciousness that I think it's hard to answer that. We know a fair amount of what goes on in our heads and fundamentally it's fairly closely modelled by neural nets but we don't really know where (or even really if) it jumps from a complex but dead input output set of neurons to a (seemingly) self reflective consciousness.
- cs702 4y agoYes, at the moment it's a matter of belief. That's why I asked gwern if he/she/they believe new breakthroughs will or won't be necessary.
- rtkwe 4y agoI think there's probably additional scale or some internal function in neurons that we haven't captured through the current weigh and sum that we haven't captured. I don't think there's anything inherently irreproducible though.