My thinking is literally we need 'better' equipment to properly answer either quantum gravity or consciousness. These are surely not civilizational priorities and so the progress is limited. If CERN or RIKEN, or Fermilab cannot delve into what a proton yields, then this is where we are. Neither have we really cranked up machinery to address consciousness. We're doing better on the neuroscience thing then we have in the past, because the machinery used until then very recently is way too simple. Encephalographs + white lab coats just ain't going to produce. For cosmology, yeah, with better telescopes we detect more granular detail. Or what's an exo-planet for? A deeper question on how to get there is the possibility that machine intelligence could accelerate discovery and invention? This ought to be a meta-goal for our species. Medical science and pharmacology is a sure beneficiary of AI, and thus the human body becomes a beneficiary in this fashion.
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 3, 2021 7:08 pm Subject: Re: Consciousness research Welcome back Philip. Long time since I heard from you. We really do not know for sure. Consciousness is something we experience subjectively and has some elusive nature with objectivity. LCOn Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 1:11:24 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: “The growing field of AI requires hardware that can host adaptive memory properties beyond what is used in today’s computers,” he added. “We find that nickel oxide insulators, which historically have been restricted to academic pursuits, might be interesting candidates to be tested in future for brain-inspired computers and robotics.” Consciousness is beyond what understood to be conventionally computational. It that sense, it cannot be simulated, it can only be synthesized. On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:50:08 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: Opinion, does this development have any real impact on the subject of whether a machine can eventually be conscious. This is a paper from Rutgers and seems to be along the lines of the topic. https://www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-find-human-learning-can-be-duplicated-in-solid-matter The method seemingly can be imitated. -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Sep 8, 2021 9:10 am Subject: Re: Consciousness research It is never to late, but I guess they remain in the Aristotelian framework, which makes them impossible to take into account the elementary consequences of Mechanism in metaphysics. If you can sum up their approaches or just tell me their basic hypotheses ... In my university, it too time, but eventually there is a course on consciousness, but only the "weak problem" is allowed to be researched, which is better than nothing. Bruno On Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 12:27:03 AM UTC+2 Brent wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78UL1gYhXI Four researchers on consciousness who take a operational and scientific approach and have a program to try to test theories of consciousness. Brent -- 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/194eef2c-8583-4946-a080-b438bcc1aae2n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/2017784195.284772.1635986230373%40mail.yahoo.com.
