On 2/2/2011 2:00 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Brent Meeker<[email protected]> wrote:
I think it very likely that the brain can be so modeled. But the meaning
that simulated brain, as expressed in it's output decisions relative to
inputs is dependent on the rest of the world, or at least of it with which
the brain will interact - including the past evoutionary history which led
up to the brain. Its computations have no canonical interpretation in
themselves.
You can connect the simulated brain to transducers which convert
environmental inputs into electrical signals. But then, what would
happen if the same electrical signals were input from data on disk
rather than the environment? Would the brain's experience be
different? If so, how would it know where the data was coming from?
It wouldn't know; and it's responses would have no meaning except to
someone who did know. Context is essential. Otherwise you get the rock
that calculates everything.
Brent
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