Apologies - real account for Alex St John is @AlexStJohn5 . h/t @mwilcox
Cell interiors, not neurons, are basis for consciousness. AI via neural nets is wishful thinking - @AlexStJohn666 http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2017/06/16/fooling-ourselves-with-ai/ …
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064513001188 … if it where really wrong, a single argument against it would be enough
@nntaleb
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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-neuron-has-been-found-wrapped-around-the-entire-circumference-of-the-brain … no? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.htm … yes? https://phys.org/news/2016-02-dna-nerve-cells-ancestors-cluster.html … just we dont know yet(like many other things).
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Another interesting read not without its flaws but thought provoking nonetheless https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer …
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Sometimes I wonder why I use twitter. Finding gems like this article is the reason
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We had brain mythology, now we have cell mythology of somatic localization of psyche. Good luck with that
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Worst case: eventually we could simulate a whole cell's biochemistry polynomially efficiently using a large scale quantum computer.
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Yet another article interchangeably using the words consciousness and intelligence
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Matter is composed of energy. Energy is made up of quanta. Consciousness has to be of the quantum, or emerge from...what?
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If you want to learn more about how the quantum may look and how it functions, check out
@Tetryonics. Mind-blowing & eye-opening.
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We should be able to emulate the cells in and out. Don't you agree?
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It takes racks of computers to simulate a small chunk of nonorganic molecules and crystals that barely move. To simulate an active cell..nah
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And if those lower effects dominate, they are very hard to probe and understand. How much does quantum mechanics play a role in consciousnes
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Cells baffle me. How cytoskeletons move everything inside and push the cell to grow and transform. How much of that plays into consciousness
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The aggregate activity of cells is nonlinear.
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I'm still betting on astrocytes and microtubules. Neurons probably direct attention though
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Surely it's a complex mix of both, that said; I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Although simple cells are merely akin to automatons, only responding to immediate chemical gradients, heat, etc.
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