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Still think Orch OR solves both of these problems. It's a fantastic non-dualist theory.
I love these uploads but please, sort the sound levels out… so low!
the thing is that even if scientists will be able to duplicate consciousness into a computer it wont really be conscious, it will just perform a very convincing show to make people think it is conscious..
I believe that real consciousness can only be achieved in biological stuff, not in mechanical stuff, so perhaps biological computers will have (true) consciousness in the future, but it will never really exist in a conventional mechanical computer.
Someone once said, if you want to duplicate human consciousness just have a baby.
Machines can only achieve machine consciousness.
This debate over what conscious is like two radios debating about where the music comes from. Yet do not understand radio waves. Each living organism is a receiver of conscious to its own biological ability.
Is that Alva's spot? nice
My current (and only) theory of how consciousness emerges:
Energy is input via the senses and from the body itself. This energy goes over quantum thresholds and under quantum ceilings and harmonizes where it can. Going through various levels, "consciousness" emerges.
With a billion or so brain cells and a trillion or so brain cell connections, how exactly does the brain even think a thought? How does the energy signal know where and when to start, what path to take, and where and when to stop to form a coherent thought? Obviously it does, but how exactly does it do it?
For example:
A brain is spread out like a map. The brain cells are represented by towns and cities. The brain cell interconnections are represented by roads and highways. The "non-conscious" energy signal is represented by a "non-conscious" vehicle. A coherent thought is represented by the vehicle's coherent trip between one or more towns and/or cities.
How exactly does the "non-conscious" vehicle know where and when to start, what path to take, and where and when to stop to form a coherent trip? A higher intelligence has to tell it those things. But, in a way, that is a coherent trip in and of itself. So, how exactly does our brain think a thought before it thinks that thought? What exactly is the "higher intelligence" behind our very thoughts? If from within the brain and body itself, how exactly does it do it? If from outside the brain and body itself, then how exactly does it do it and why?
Energy and harmonized energy interacting with other energy and harmonized energy is consciousness and even thoughts themselves?
Energy is input to one area of the brain, let's call it area "a". Whatever that energy signal is, it gets a name, which is stored in area "b" and a meaning in area "c", and maybe even additional names and meanings in areas "d", "e", etc.
But, how exactly the brain makes those connections and "knows" what to put where and what area connects specifically to what other areas are a complete mystery to me.
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We all see things through our own lens and my lens is microwave and satellite communications. When I look at the human body, I see an antenna. The ears are designed to pick up frequencies between 20hz and 20khz, the skin is designed for infrared frequencies while the eyes perceive very high frequencies. The brain, in so far as I can tell, decodes those frequencies and presents us with a "reality" based upon the previously stated input.
These inputs originate outside of the body and it leads me to believe that consciousness, too, originates outside of the body and that we are simply antennas to receive it. Something to think about. Oh yeah, if you'd like these to sound better than hit me up.
I guess it's the potatoes, that makes them think like that.
When a monkey takes a look at a computer and you see a smart useful machine compared to him, what makes him (a monkey of course?)???
In other words…. We have NO freaking clue!
Maybe because according to recent developments in understanding of biology quantum mechanics may well play a huge role in the organization of living beings. And since nobody understands quantum mechanics, it is really hard to see what role it may play beyond some obvious.
Quantum mechanics may play a role in photosynthesis, in bird navigation, vision, etc. We try to use in in information processing.
From an evolutionary standpoint: if it can be so useful in information processing and it appears in living many organisms, is simply not realistic that quantum mechanics doesnt play a role in the workings of the most complicated information processing device we know of, the human brain.
Let alone the arguments of Roger Penrose about non-computability of human understanding that suggest the presence of something that is not based on classical mechanics / algorithms.
When people experience significant brain damage they experience significant changes in consciousness and cognition. End of story.
who told this idiot that life is a physical thing? A wood is a physical thing. Life is not.