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But it’s also based on neurons with far more complex behavior than artificial neurons and also has other separate dynamic systems involving neurochemicals, vari
by runlaszlorun 3y ago
But it’s also based on neurons with far more complex behavior than artificial neurons and also has other separate dynamic systems involving neurochemicals, various effects across the nervous system and the rest of the body (the gut becoming seemingly more and more relevant), various EEG patterns, and most likely quantum effects.
I personally wouldn’t rule out that it can’t be emulated in a different substrate, but I think calling it “an algorithm” is to def stretch and misapply the usefulness of the term.
- int_19h 3y agoIf it performs a computation, it is by definition running some algorithm regardless of how it's implemented in hardware / wetware. How is it a stretch? The only way our brains could be not algorithmic is if something like soul is a real thing that actually drives our intelligence.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoWhy? Rain is not algorithmic, clouds are not algorithmic, waves in the sea are not algorithmic, yet they are entirely physical processes that have nothing to do with souls.
- int_19h 3y agoNone of these are computational processes, unlike intelligence. Unless you're trying to argue that intelligence isn't, either?
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoHeaven forbid. I'd go to jail for such a blasphemous transgression of common law, wouldn't I? Thank you kind stranger for reminding me of the legislation.
- AdieuToLogic 3y ago> The only way our brains could be not algorithmic is if something like soul is a real thing that actually drives our intelligence. Therein lies the question, one which deserves contemplation and can lead to Enlightenment. Which then begs the question; is Enlightenment a "real thing" and, if not, how is it that it can be experienced?