Re: Silicon based Brain


"tadchem" <tadchem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jun 27, 12:59 am, Trish Raggens <trishragg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

If you replace each neuron of the brain with a silicon
counterpart until the brain is entirely silicon based.
Would there still be qualia or self-awareness in the
brain like we normal human have? What do you think?

Trish

The basic operation of the chordate nervous system is predicated upon
stochastic connectivity as the foundation for fuzzy logic.

All current semiconductor-based artificial circuitry is deterministic.
Fuzzy logic must be introduced into these systems as software.

Conversion of a bio-brain to a cyborg system would lose the stochastic
nature of the connections, yielding a mechanism incapable of self-
modification.
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John von Neumann would disagree with that last statement, as do I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann





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