RE: Science discovers envy
January 18, 2015 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2015 at 9:57 am by JuliaL.)
Currently we have equipment with insufficient resolution to find detail in so complex a state as envy. But just wait, it's coming.
I do remember seeing a report on a project where they were going for a complete map of the hypothalamus through digitization of serial sections, every dendrite and synapse. I think it was for a mouse. Even if they succeed, they're going to have to model the membrane and synapse chemistries to get a digital synthetic working model. It's a long way to go.
Back a while, within my memory, the differential equations (Navier-Stokes) for fluid flow around complex objects like wings couldn't be solved so aeronautical and marine engineers had to build models for wind tunnels and flow tanks. Then computational fluid mechanics was developed.
There are parallels in the progress of these processes.
I prophesy that somehow you're going to wrongly find that full models of neural correlates were predicted in the Koran. You should start looking now, before science runs past you again.
I do remember seeing a report on a project where they were going for a complete map of the hypothalamus through digitization of serial sections, every dendrite and synapse. I think it was for a mouse. Even if they succeed, they're going to have to model the membrane and synapse chemistries to get a digital synthetic working model. It's a long way to go.
Back a while, within my memory, the differential equations (Navier-Stokes) for fluid flow around complex objects like wings couldn't be solved so aeronautical and marine engineers had to build models for wind tunnels and flow tanks. Then computational fluid mechanics was developed.
There are parallels in the progress of these processes.
I prophesy that somehow you're going to wrongly find that full models of neural correlates were predicted in the Koran. You should start looking now, before science runs past you again.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
