Thread: How are we not a computer?

It is really late, so it will be short.

I do think there is a connected between the operation of a computer and the human mind.

Well, we do compute don't we? - in the most broadest sense.

This is the basics of how consciousness works.

1. Input (Senses, generator of experience, and more fundamentally bits of information)
2. Process (We access, interpret and compares the input and new data with previous experience and rule-set/purpose/moral/programming)
3. Self-Modification (Changing the configuration of the being/self to a more profitable state, improving by experience, "self-programming", resulting in a change in future input)
4. Repeat this process. (A very complex self-modifying system which decreases the entropy of the information which is consists of. Or changing 1's or 0's into a better and more profitable configuration, a feedback loop.)

A computer can also be conscious, it needs to be complex enough though.

For a computer to be conscious, among others it needs the capability of self-modification, to change it's own software.

Now.. goodnight