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towr
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Re: Mind
« Reply #25 on: Feb 2nd, 2015, 11:35am » |
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on Feb 2nd, 2015, 1:37am, jordan wrote:Nobody can understand our mind. Scientists know less than 5 percent about our brain |
| How do you know it's less than 5%? Or, for that matter, that it's impossible to understand the mind? How do we quantify understanding the mind? If we can recreate the mind in a computer simulation, will that qualify as understanding the mind? I'm not saying we will be able to do that, soon, or ever, or never; but how should we quantify what percentage of understanding we have of the mind? I don't believe the mind is special and outside of the dominion of science. We'll understand more and more of it, as long as we don't give up trying. And that alone is sufficient reason never to accept it as impossible.
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Re: Mind
« Reply #26 on: Feb 2nd, 2015, 3:47pm » |
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The beauty of the human mind is, it makes mistakes. "to err is human". A computer will not make a mistake unless it is told to do so. When a computer can make a mistake on its own initiative, then it can consider itself human. Perfection has no place in the human world. The human world is made up of random decisions made by the self. Computers have no self. They do not even know they exist.
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Re: Mind
« Reply #27 on: Feb 3rd, 2015, 9:04am » |
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on Feb 2nd, 2015, 3:47pm, EdwardSmith wrote:A computer will not make a mistake unless it is told to do so. |
| I guess you don't work with computers? Even aside from cosmic rays causing errors in computations, the sheer complexity together with chaos theory make the behavior of computers a bit unpredictable in a real setting. Even when you do the exact same thing twice, the result may be different due to timing or interactions with the environment you have no control over (power spikes, temperature, random burst of internet packages). And aside from all that, you can easily program a computer to be unpredictable. Random input + evolutionary programming = who knows what's going on anymore.
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