[FairfieldLife] Re: More cool brain stuff...

2014-08-29 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Robots can sense their environment and respond to it. We do the same, though in a much more complex fashion. A thermostat is a switch, the environment changes, the switch shifts. Add some circuitry that goes to an air conditioner or a heater, you have a very simple neural net. This simple syst

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More cool brain stuff...

2014-08-28 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
With technical accuracy like this, sooner or later they have just got to come up with a practical, testable theory about how consciousness is formed in the brain and how it gives us our sense of "us" looking out at the world. > Consciousness is not formed in the brain, consciousness form

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More cool brain stuff...

2014-08-28 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : With technical accuracy like this, sooner or later they have just got to come up with a practical, testable theory about how consciousness is formed in the brain and how it gives us our sense of "us" looking out at the world. > On 8/28/2014 1

[FairfieldLife] Re: More cool brain stuff...

2014-08-28 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : With technical accuracy like this, sooner or later they have just got to come up with a practical, testable theory about how consciousness is formed in the brain and how it gives us our sens

[FairfieldLife] Re: More cool brain stuff...

2014-08-28 Thread danfriedman2002
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : With technical accuracy like this, sooner or later they have just got to come up with a practical, testable theory about how consciousness is formed in the brain and how it gives us our sense of "us" looking out at the world. Consciousness i