Re: Neural Patterns and Self Awareness

On Jun 20, 12:31 am, Uncle Al <Uncle...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trish Raggens wrote:

Hi,

How do neural patterns or representations in the
brain give rise to mental qualia and self-awareness
("I think therefore I am")?

They don't.  We have examples of people massively naturally deficient
in brain matter who are reasonably normal human mentalities.  No
reductionist analysis survives.

Is any new physics involved?

Of course not.  What aspect of physics would you contradict to make
your model work?

Can we design computer systems that can become
self aware?  How?

No biggie.  The CPU is spin valves rather than hard-wired gates.  It
can reconnect its internal paths on the fly.  The operating system is
an evolutionary algorithm plus external noise.  You set up a room
filled with racks of these puppies and stand back.

But we can design CPU that is hard-wired gates and
if it can't fit into a 6 foot human body frame, then make
it bigger, like one of those Transformer Robots being
shown.

If all the properties of the mind in a human is derived
from the brain, then we can indeed create androids
that can think and feel and emote like we do with
enough sensors especially when nanotechnology
advances more, isn't it.

Or could it be that human has something else, a soul
that gives us self-awareness in conjunction with the
brain?

First we need to know if self-awareness is possible
by mere physical circuitry like neurons or ICs
(Integrated Circuits). Any experiment proof of this
aspect lately anyone?

Trish


Human electroencephalography tops off around 30 Hz.  CPUs running at 2
GHz are unexceptional.  Sterile Earth to Pacoima, CA required 2
billion years.  Run 1000 intercommunicative setups and have group
sentience in silico within a year worst case.

What will you do after it wakes up and hates you 60 million times
faster than you can think?

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