RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
October 11, 2018 at 10:16 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2018 at 10:18 am by polymath257.)
(October 11, 2018 at 10:12 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(October 11, 2018 at 10:05 am)polymath257 Wrote: Well, what is pain? It is an adversive reaction to a potentially damaging stimulus. I don't see any reason why that isn't possible in silicon.Supercomputers are more powerful than human brains. Reproducing single artificial qualia like feeling of pain should have been done by now
No, they are not. They are uniformly linear processors, based on a Von Neumann technology, which is quite different than the architecture of the brain.
They are more powerful in the sense of being able to process certain types of data faster, but they are not programmed to interact with an environment, learn from mistakes, and to survive. This drastically limits their ability to do the types of things required for consciousness.
(October 11, 2018 at 10:14 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(October 11, 2018 at 10:05 am)polymath257 Wrote: Scientific proof, in the current context, consists of noting that every conscious entity we have ever seen has a brain, that brain states are, in fact, sufficient to explain observed conscious behavior,
Behaviour is not mind
Behavior shows the effects of mind and can be used to analyze mind. If we can correlate brain states to reported conscious states, that is more than sufficient to establish that consciousness derives from brain states.
