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| DATE | 2020-02-11 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] You might find this to be of interest
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try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c
On 1/30/20 2:08 PM, baruchd wrote:
> There is an observation that the brain as a filter of extraneous information is one the chief functions the brain. When one considers the enormous amount of impulses the brain receives every moment, then a filter that excludes the irrelevant is critical to normal functioning. There is another consideration; namely, that our brain is capable of much more than is commonly considered or utilized. The uncanny mental feats of idiot savants screams for a new paradigm of what is a human being. Darwin dominated thinking stifles the possibility of achieving such a paradigm.
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>> On Jan 30, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
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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
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>>
>> 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?â€
>>
>>
>> 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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>> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
>> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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>> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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>>
>> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
>> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
>>
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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