Do you mean the function of the brain (ie motor control) or consciousness?
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Black mirror episode, forgive me, been while since seen it. But the premise is that a guy died.. & they uploaded all his memories, thoughts, conscious into a plastic AI like shell body. In other words, could nlink possibly be able to recreate another u if it steals your wave, & figures out what brainwaves represent & how they work? Biggest question of them all is: what is consciousness? No one really knows.
Ugh sorry, that prob doesn’t make sense. If ya into Black Mirror show, I’ll find link. Sec..
No, it makes sense. So the question is whether a “downloaded” version of all of your experiences could replicate experiencing them?
Yea, like that. Makes one consider what E’s up to with that neuralink
It does, I believe a computer can not know how precious life is until it has felt the pain of watching a loved one die. It can’t understand how much one’s beliefs and values matter until its voice is silenced and its stories forgotten. It can not know how much the land matters until it has starved. Knowledge and wisdom is gained through struggle. I don’t think wisdom can be “downloaded” and I don’t think a computer will ever know what it means to be human.
What if it can “simulate” life?
How can it simulate life if it has never participated in it?
Very deep. Let me ponder for minute on reply
Great answer, thank you for reply. “What it means to be human” is think most imp thing I can start w. Well said… To be human… is to feel pain, to kno hunger pangs, to kno struggle. Def must be learned experience.
Using combination of AI, facial software, deep fakes, & prob other technologies I don’t kno bout… could we be “tricked” to believe? Like could it become so advanced that it can “mimick” humans? Or as Wshake put it… “stimulate”. Same concept, diff words.
Side note: I can feel there is much emotion in your words, thank u for sharing, you have held a hand & had to say goodbye. 🫂 Life is precious.
Thank you 🫂.
Well said.
There is a difference between hearing a story and understanding a story from living it.
We can warn others from placing their hand on a hot stove, but many insights have to be lived and experienced personally to be properly understood and processed.
Experiencing loved ones pass away is a transformative process for us humans. It is not merely information of a parameter changing value. It is a far deeper process that we don't even know how to describe to a computer program. And the program doesn't understand our input, it merely arranges it via a set of weighted formulas.
This is why poetry, music and art are fundamentally different when they are created by a human being; the words spoken by a human have a meaning in relation to past experiences, struggles, joys and the reflections of a sovereign mind.
We form words into ideas as a sculptor chips away marble to form a statue. It is a process guided by our consciousness. We put our mind into what we create. All our experiences flow through the creative process and converge in the output.
A machine producing the same output has merely reproduced something already created by a human mind. Most of the work is internal, not external. The finished visible piece is just the tip of the iceberg of an internal process.
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