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An actual neuron is far more complex than those in an ANN. I really don't think it follows that if an animal with a similar number of neurons or synapses has so
by thfuran 3y ago
An actual neuron is far more complex than those in an ANN. I really don't think it follows that if an animal with a similar number of neurons or synapses has some quality related to their brain, so does the ANN.
- ben_w 3y agoWhile true, at present I have no reason to think the extra complexity is important in any way that matters.
- thfuran 3y agoWhy would you think it doesn't matter? It seems rather unlikely that a major organ would consistently retain a whole lot of useless complexity and functionality across a huge range of animals.
- ben_w 3y agoThe brain is organic and needs to keep itself alive as well as processing data, and it processes and conveys data by alternating between electrical and chemical signals; chemistry in general is a high-noise mess. As I don't expect conscious experience to be the result of that mess[0], I expect a digital silicon network to be able to have qualia when it's replicating both the structure of a conscious brain and the simplest parts of the behaviour of the neurones in that structure. [0] but as nobody knows what consciousness is, I can't rule that out.