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| DATE | 2020-01-30 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] You might find this to be of interest
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:27:14AM -0500, baruchd wrote:
> http://nautil.us/issue/81/maps/an-existential-crisis-in-neuroscience?utm_source=pocket-newtab
This is a major read that requires a serious sit down. Facinating
philosophical intergotive from scientific research.
The key line:
“And maybe there’s something fundamental about that idea: that no
machine can have an output more sophisticated than itself,” Lichtman
said. “What a car does is trivial compared to its engineering. What a
human brain does is trivial compared to its engineering. Which is the
great irony here. We have this false belief there’s nothing in the
universe that humans can’t understand because we have infinite
intelligence. But if I asked you if your dog can understand something
you’d say, ‘Well, my dog’s brain is small.’ Well, your brain is only a
little bigger,” he continued, chuckling. “Why, suddenly, are you able to
understand everything?”
There is a fundemental flaw in this statement though. It runs amock
with the Turing Principle which says, all computational systems are
fundemenally equal. OTOH, I always say that our brains are only slight
bit more efficent than a monkey or even a mouse. But it is enough to
reach the tipping point where humans can create culture and through
culture, process logic. We use our brains for much more than it was
designed for and hence all the mental illness.
Ruben
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