On 10/12/2020 2:18 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 3:17:34 PM UTC-5 Brent wrote:
On 10/12/2020 3:15 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
I would say in general with a machine you can see the seems,
bolts and rivets while a biological system you don't. You can
turn off a machine, but a biological system does not turn back
on. Biological systems are spontaneous and will act accordingly.
A computer with no input just sits there.
That raises an interesting question though. Will a brain with no
input function? I've heard that in experiments using sensory
deprivation tanks, people's thought tend to go into a loop; even
though the sensory input isn't strictly zero.
Brent
People in sensory deprivation tanks at some point start entering
hallucinations. Think of the standard computer, such as one's desktop
or laptop, if you boot it up it then just sits there. So long as the
power is up it will just stay there in this resting state.
How do you know it's not hallucinating? :-) It doesn't seem to be doing
anything because it doesn't have any sensory input. In fact my computer
will upload email every ten minutes, sort through it and discard about
half to Junk, a classification it learned by watching me.
Brent
I have thought there is some possible intellectual revolution with
understanding how brains work. There seems in ways to a a more general
principle for how states in network systems evolve.
LC
While there are clearly Turning machine or Church-Turing aspects
of how brains or neural systems work, there are also huge
departures.
LC
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