Re: Silicon based Brain
- From: Bob <daybob@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:13:45 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 29, 3:13 pm, Paul Cardinale <pcardin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 26, 9:59 pm, 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
You seem to be asking whether consciousness would exist if all brain
functions from the highest to lowest levels were replicated with
artificial parts. Although there is very little known about what
brings about consciousness, it almost certainly it could exist in a
machine. There is no reason to suspect that there's anything magical
happening in the biology of the brain.
Paul Cardinale
If silicon and electronics would be a good approach
for implementing a conscious structure, then why didn't
Nature find it in our billions of years of evolution? Lots of
possible answers to that, but it does raise the question.
Since we're clueless about the origin and nature of
consciousness (How do you test whether something is
conscious?), it's not at all clear what properties of
materials are needed to embody it. (Not all materials
make good lightbulb filaments.)
-- Bob Day
http://bobday.vze.com
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