Thread: An Artificial Brain

http://online.wsj.com/video/scientis...912D85C81.html

This would be intresting. A brain inside a computer? They will soon take over the world.

things like that make me want to change my major...

My idea.

I'm considering working for these people... I'm getting a degree in mathematics and a master's in neuroscience because this is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in.

Poor virtual person, when they make the actual brain. They should give it eyes and ears. He could be the actual example of the brain in a vat.

It's extremely philosophically interesting; would it be conscious?

It divides many people, but I think that it certainly would be. My argument is that there is obviously nothing inherently conscious about the material that constitutes the neural network (biological molecules as opposed to silicon).

I understand the statistics idea Xei. It's been around a while actually, in fact, it can be found in something called the Simulation Hypothesis. What I have NOT seen is anyone understand the idea that didn't understand it right from the get-go. lol

Anyways, as to whether a simulated mind would be conscious, I say absolutely yes. I don't believe in P-Zombies. IMO, consciousness is fundamental and root to all existence, and will "see" out of all possible perpectives, and I don't think you can possibly engineer something that acts just like a human brain without it having an internal system through which consciousness will inevitably see. It's kind of like trying to make a window that is clear, but that you can't see through. =p