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Indeed our consciousness is an emergent property from a complex system, however the complexity of that system - the human brain - is almost unfathomably beyond
by somewhereoutth 3y ago
Indeed our consciousness is an emergent property from a complex system, however the complexity of that system - the human brain - is almost unfathomably beyond the complexity of anything we might make in silicon now or in the foreseeable future.
For example, it is possible to write down a (natural/whole) number that completely describes the state of an LLM - its connections and weights etc - for example by simply taking the memory space and converting into a number as a very long sequence of 1s and 0s. The number will be very big, but still indescribably smaller than a number that could perfectly describe the state of a human brain - not least as that number is likely to lie on the real line, or beyond, even if it was calculable. See Cantor for a discussion on the various infinities and their respective cardinalities.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoUnder the assumption that human brains are limited by our current understanding of physics, their state is finite - infinities are forbidden by definition. ( See the relationship between information theory and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle that results in the law of paraconservation of information : http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy-more.html#sec-phase-space http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy-more.html#sec-pha... )
- somewhereoutth 3y agoNot true. The idea that QM discretises our universe is incorrect.