On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:35 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
*> An ant brain has hundreds of thousands of neurons and tens of millions > of connections. So despite our intelligence, our minds are no where near > capable of understanding and comprehending all the structural > interrelationships present in an ant brain. * > True, but such detail is usually not necessary, and even today we can make a pretty good prediction of the general sort of things an ant will do in a given circumstance, such as when it encounters a grain of sugar. *> A super intelligence, on the other hand, could have the requisite memory > and processing to hold in it's mind a comprehension of another, much > simpler mind,* > Yes, if by "comprehension" you mean the ability to predict an output (also known as behavior) of a mind for any given input I agree, assuming randomness does not play a part. But predicting how you will objectively behave it's not the same as knowing what it would subjectively be like to be you. I think being you is unique and analogies don't work in this case so being you is not subjectively "like" anything except being you. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1str5CqJmPG1yJij-gJbnbOiik9BTMdMpU44Xioxn6Pg%40mail.gmail.com.
