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• AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        i know we don’t have that technology right now. i see it as very plausible in the future.

        It’s entirely possible that consciousness is non-computable.

        thats a hell of an assumption, is thinking the same as consciousness? how would consciousness be non-computable, if our brains are composed of discrete computation units (the neurons)?

        do we even know what consciousness even is? we don’t know for a fact only fleshy brains composed of neurons are somehow capable of experiencing it.

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