Bunch of crap? Sorry to be so blunt and derogatory. |
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Surely, this belongs in the inner sanctum more than philosophy. |
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Bunch of crap? Sorry to be so blunt and derogatory. |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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well.. haha, ima be completely honest with you. i just added that part to make it sound good. and cus everyone is saying it. its kinda like a joke. its so small that it is "Practically" nothing. cus how the hell can something ever be nothing? |
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And i predict that quantum computing will result in self-aware computers. |
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The human mind isn't quantum though, that has nothing to do with awareness. The awareness is just the massively deep and complex self-referential nature of the mind. |
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Thanks for the concrete response. I haven't even thought about building a more organic but what do you think could be used to make that other than an actual brain? |
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I'm with StonedApe. |
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As to what you would use for neurons in an artificial brain; I don't think neurons are really complicated things in themselves, they're basically a lot like a transistor, when enough electro-chemical potential reaches them, they fire, when they fire, other neurons connected to it sense that impulse and fire or not, depending on how much impulse it takes for them to respond. And then there are neurons that do the reverse of that I believe. And then neurotransmitters get into the mix and change the relative sensitivities of various neurons. |
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Most animals don't have awareness, actually. Crows, dolphins, and of course humans do, but there aren't very many. Most animals run purely off of instinct, no awareness about it. Think of a butterfly. Some species only live for about a month. They don't have time for awareness. |
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Replace crows with passerines (At minimum the genus corvus which includes the crows and ravens, and the mynah family), replace dolphins with cetations, and add the parrot family, all primates, cephalopods, canines, felines, the bear family, fuck, pretty much every mammal, some monitor lizards, and cephalopods. |
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Where do the instincts come from then? |
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I better check what Utah's like. I'd say there's consiousness and being aware of that is awareness. And what you call instincts is just consiousness without awareness of it. I fail to see a flat line that defines species of being aware and not aware. But yes crows , dolphins , cats and the likes are more lucid than lesser evolved animals i think. I feel that dogs have been pretty much kept stupid by keeping them as pets. |
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I'd say that being kept as pets makes dogs even more aware/lucid. They then have food handed to them, they don't worry about sex, they have protection from dying, they don't rely entirely on instinct. Licking people is a very good example of this, since one reason (aside from just liking the taste of your soap or something) is to show compassion. If my dog notices that I have a cut, she licks it, showing that she has more than just instinct. |
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The best example of emptiness that I can give is evolution. It is a perfectly empty way for the universe to have created life. There's nothing to it. It's completely empty. |
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Ah, okay, I think I've got it, thank you for explaining. So to affect the outcome of something that I desire to happen, the goal would be to interact with the simplest point of interaction of that outcome? But to influence even that simple point of interaction seems like "doing." Unless, as before, I'm still over complicating what you mean. |
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