RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
May 14, 2014 at 8:39 am
You people and your quantum phenomena in the brain... -.-'
Neurons work based on ion exchanges...
It takes lots of ion exchanges just to get one nervous impulse from one edge of a neuron to the other. And when we need to take into account "lots" of particles, suddenly, quantum phenomena approximate to classical phenomena and you loose all that quantum mumbo jumbo randomness.
I think consciousness (or mentality) should be an emergent property of the brain's neurons working together. Surely not all on the same task. But a bunch of them are dedicated to our own identity and its separation from the rest of the world.
How to test this scientifically?
Build a model... our current best bet would be Artificial Intelligence... let it run and see if it behaves a bit like us.
Thus far, the model is far from containing all the neurons we do have, so it's far from perfect... but it's getting there.
If the model presents an accurate picture of reality, it is assumed that reality works sort of like the model. Science works like that.
Neurons work based on ion exchanges...
It takes lots of ion exchanges just to get one nervous impulse from one edge of a neuron to the other. And when we need to take into account "lots" of particles, suddenly, quantum phenomena approximate to classical phenomena and you loose all that quantum mumbo jumbo randomness.
I think consciousness (or mentality) should be an emergent property of the brain's neurons working together. Surely not all on the same task. But a bunch of them are dedicated to our own identity and its separation from the rest of the world.
How to test this scientifically?
Build a model... our current best bet would be Artificial Intelligence... let it run and see if it behaves a bit like us.
Thus far, the model is far from containing all the neurons we do have, so it's far from perfect... but it's getting there.
If the model presents an accurate picture of reality, it is assumed that reality works sort of like the model. Science works like that.
