Mind & Computer !!!

[Moni]

Hi All,

It's one of the ancient and important question, which have been asked may be many times, but it always provides newer answers :D

Upto what level Computer is similar to human brain???

Can computer ever simulate human mind? "Hall" of space odessy will never be true???

Which way should lead us to make a digital human brain in the near future???

[Corwin]

i think that silicon computers will always approach the ability to simulate human thinking by implementing higher and higher levels of abstraction. some people think that consciousness just sort of happens when enough complexity is involved in the processing of information and there is no distinct point at which a machine becomes conscious. this, i disagree with. i define consciousness as the awareness of a change in this moment or time. to be aware of continuously variable input like time i think it is necessary for us to think with continuously variable parameters like the voltage of our neural impulses. i therefor think that for a computer to be conscious requires some component whos continuously variable state reflects the continuously variable input from its environment unlike the capacitor which contains either a 1 or a 0 and nothing in between. i believe the only kind of computer proposed to have this component is the quantum computer. what do you think?

[Moni]

hmm...I don't know much about quantum computers.....but heard those are able to do parallel processing....

And this is my thesis this year to find out few ways to make computers more like human mind....so, I'm searching info and didn't find much books on it in our library...it seems net is also not that helping....:S

[Billy T]

hmm...I don't know much about quantum computers.....but heard those are able to do parallel processing....

And this is my thesis this year to find out few ways to make computers more like human mind....so, I'm searching info and didn't find much books on it in our library...it seems net is also not that helping....:S
Take a look at the attachment, if your open to really new (paradigm shifting) but well suported ideas. Send PM and I will give some reference in Science etc. that show via microelectrodes in alert monkey brains that it is now well established that parietal brain does indeed make some prediction of what the monkey will "see." (Information that will be delivered by his retinal nerves.

When you have read the attachment, you will understand why see is in quotes. - I believe that cognitive scientists are wrong when they claim that our perceptions "emerge" from the processed transforms of sensorial data. I think this information is too delayed to be very useful in hiting a curve ball or ducking a thrown rock etc. Instead I think the sensory infro is projected ahead to make and guide a real time simulation of the physical world and we perceive that simulation. This explains many things such as phantom limbs, illusions, hallucinations, free will, Out of Africa, how our ancestors killed off the bigger-brained and stronger Neanderthals etc, etc.

See also the thread "What price Free Will? for an on-going discussion of the attachment. Good luck with your thesis.