(September 6, 2014 at 5:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: This applies not only to ANNs. Imagine taking a snapshot of 1 second of brain activity-- not fMRI, but every single chemical interaction that happened, and then figuring out where in that mess consciousness was created. Many are confident that mind is "in there" somewhere, but that level of complexity allows for the random supervenience of so many forms that one of those supervened forms may be mind, rather than anything the specific system does.Imagine taking a snapshot of 1 second of intel i7 980x activity, not just heat loads, but every single transistor interaction that happened, and the figuring out where in that mess is a browser tab, or the video decompression from MPEG4 to screen...
I'm confident these are "in there", somewhere, but that level of complexity blah, blah, blah.... I hope you get the picture.
Just because we can't (yet?) understand it all, it doesn't mean it's not there.
Where else could it be?
