(Balance!) Consciousness, identity, OBEs... (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, March 02, 2011, 01:51 (5014 days ago) @ David Turell


> > In our goal to understand consciousness, one of the challenges that will teach us the most is in creating a consciousness. > 
> > The most progress in learning about cognition has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence. If you want to know about cognition these days, you look for an AI expert. I told you all that to tell you this:
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> > The human brain's best analogy is that of a computer. 
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> I think the following paper is an excellent discussion of consciousness and I think is a refutation of AI research creating consciousness and believing that the brain is only a super-computer.:
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> http://www.newstatesman.com/print/201102240028-While the high profile guys (like Kurzweil) look at consciousness in that way, you should spend some time reading AI journals. You'd find that the average AI practitioner is much more humble in his opinions concerning human consciousness.

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