Identity (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 21:46 (5546 days ago) @ David Turell

Matt believes that a man-made machine with consciousness will show that "the difference between us and everything else (in terms of consciousness) is only in degree. It means that consciousness should be relatively common in the universe."
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> My position has been as a doubter. With the brain's 100 billion cells and innumerable connecting dendrites, axons, and synapses now it is found that individual neurons have two levels of decision-making.
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914172650.htm-Again, no problems with doubting.-Important criticisms on this article: It isn't offered as a definitive finding, only another potential model. -From the computational side of things, it wouldn't add much complexity to the programming; only the power of the machines we'd need to have to model it. Axons would be a special subclass of cell that would run a quorum algorithm using fuzzy logic. (Quorum as in "quorum sensing" in bacteria and fuzzy logic as in "makes decisions based on statistical inference.") -From what I've been reading on neural net programming, this "electoral college" phenomenon might be an emergent property and not necessary to specifically model for. It will be interesting to hear their take on this.

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