Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month agowell they can do the sums, but that may be a far cry from thinknig
Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month agowell they can do the sums, but that may be a far cry from thinknig
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
by that logic our brain is just passing neurotransmitters along.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
No, a computer is just boolean logic. I’m not being reductive, that’s literally all you need.
When people say that thinking is just complicated enough computation, that’s an assumption. A particularly convenient assumption, given all the computers we have lying about.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
if we ever simulated the complex interplay of chemicals and electricity in our brains using a computer’s boolean logic, wouldn’t that be thinking?
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
A brain is several billion living nerve cells all doing their thing, acting and reacting to one another, concurrently. A computer is only ever doing one task at a time, but at a fast enough pace as to give the illusion of multi-tasking.
Emulating a whole brain (everything, not just simplified neural networks, but the actual nerve cells themselves) is currently far beyond what computers are capable of. More then that, not every natural phenomenon can be described algorithmically! It’s entirely possible that consciousness is non- computable.