I remember a quote from Civ along the lines of “if the brain was simple enough for us to understand, our minds would be to simple to understand it.”
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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 weeks ago
If you ever study biochemistry, it leaves you absolutely in awe. The best engineering we can do is pretty amazing, we have computers and airplanes and all this magic stuff, but the stuff in you is a hundred, a thousand times better made. It’s stunning. Comparatively speaking, it is perfect.
flippinfreebird@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It’s a pretty trivial informational paradox for a mind to comprehend itself – comprehension of its comprehension of itself then needs further comprehension… So yeah. Only a much more complex mind can understand a given mind
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
We don’t need a single mind to understand the entirety of how the brain works. One of the powers of human knowledge is its distributed nature arising from our ability to write things down and create abstractions. What matters in the end is that we as a collective understand the brain.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
But then you just have the same paradox writ large. Maybe we, as a collective, can entertain understanding of a single mind - but the generalisation of us as ‘the mind’ rather than ‘a mind’ includes all of us, and must therefore be left wanting
8baanknexer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think this might be a case of expecting a fish to climb a tree. Brains are terrible in fp32 performance, and computers are so far not great at reasoning. But that’s mostly because they are made for different things. I’m not sure of this, but i would expect a single neuron firing costing a similar amount of energy as a single transistor firing. The difference is in part that they work differently, but I think the most important part is that they are put together differently. Computers were made for arithmetic while brains evolved for socialising and survival. For most other things you are 100% correct though, we could not recreate a bee or an ant even if we wanted to.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I can create real time visual imagery with no apparent resolution limit or perceptible frame rate including audio and a soundtrack.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Apparent and perceptible are the key words here. Your brain makes up pretty much everything and pretends it’s the real deal. Detail and consistency really aren’t all that great actually, much like ai video generation
Rolder@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
A lotta people have a resolution limit and use glasses to compensate
Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Not in their minds.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh, your brain is amazing, sure. Buuuut get Neuralink and let me plug my game in while you try to render the raytracing from foliage collision and I’m pretty sure you would crash like a Windows RT.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
The fact that we only recently mapped out the brain really tells you a lot about its complexity.
socrates@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
And that was only a fruit fly brain! Human brain still hasn’t been mapped.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It makes me wish I believed in God.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cariful wrat you wish for. year’s not over…
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If Christ returned, I’d be an instant convert
mEEGal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like agnosticism to me 🤝🤝
But would you mind if it turned out to be a immensely powerful alien disguised as a guy from our own past ?
At least, that seems more likely to me…
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I'd personally want to kill them for creating such evil and suffering in the world.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 weeks ago
You’re allowed to have a type of awe and reverence for the natural world, very much akin to religion, without needing to buy into any bullshit along with it.
It used to be pretty standard, and then the Christians (among others) fucked that up for everyone, and now you can’t be anything other than an aggressive humanist atheist without people starting to make assumptions about you.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hold my nanostructured beer.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But there was no switcharoo
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where’s the switcharoo? There’s supposed to be a switcharoo‽
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Watch this whenever you think humans have rivalled nature in building stuff that works.
Nature’s crafts in unrivaled
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Antivirus protection could be better, though. Oh, and the built in self destruct is kind of a bummer, too.
makyo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Figernails are so annoying
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you ever need to claw your way out of a heap of rubble, you’ll be thankful for them.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Rip them off.
dukatos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It is a planned obsolescence.