Comment on Anon conserves power
howrar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoWe 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 4 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
silasmariner@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Actually wait this is glib as fuck and probably wrong, I retract it. You could have the capability to understand, given specific allocation of resources but only do it rarely, without violating any information theory fundamentals