Like it or not, we have perfectly mapped and mimicked smaller animal's brains (up to fairly complex amphibians). Even removed the brains and hooked up the simulations to the nerve columns, and guess what? What amazes me is the fear we have that makes us want so desperately to reject observation when it contradicts the self centered myths that give us hope. Remember the earth being flat? The earth being the center of the heavens? The heart being the locus of the "soul"? Time and space being absolute and unrelated? We know the brain is a network of tiny nodes. There is nothing else in there but neurons and the dendrites that connect them (a average of ten thousand connections per neuron). We share an absurdly high correlation of genes with the simpler animals who's brains we have matched. I am not interested in mimicking the human brain. What I do know is that when I sit down to architect semantic processing schemes, they all end up sharing that hyper-dimensional networked structure no matter what I do. Also, we know at least one semantic processor (the brains of existing creatures, including of course, us). If nothing else, our own brains present a valid use case and proof of concept.
But the mind/brain split, I will leave that to people who want specialness more than they want truth. I wonder where we will say the soul abides once we can replace a person's brain? My interests are driven by the exact same process that brought us here, we are the first creature with the capacity do know THE job description. That would give us tremendous advantage (though it is obvious that one can work this job without it). randall -----Original Message----- From: Richmond Mathewson <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:48 AM To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Syllabic division of words Randall Reetz wrote: > Brains are networks. Traditional math and programming is linear or branching > linear. Somewhere in there is the gap we find computing facing today. No > good clear model for n-dimensional decentralized swarm processing. > > I wonder why you are so obsessed with the "mind/brain is ONLY a very sophisticated computer, and, with a little bit more work we will understand everything about it in a purely materialistic way" ? "Brains are networks." possibly . . . (nothing like a dogmatic statement from Randall Reetz to brighten up my Sunday) But nobody has successfully managed to get the mind-brain identity hypothesis to stick. "decentralized swarm processing" Wow! I didn't know I was a 'decentralized swarm' working in 'n-dimensions'. We have a word for that sort of blether in Scotland . . . _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
