(April 5, 2015 at 7:07 am)emjay Wrote:(April 5, 2015 at 6:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: Like a person in a coma?
That -is- language, from a systems standpoint. The manner in which data is represented and communicated between systems and between parts within a system is language.
It's definitely possible, think of hex. Theres nothing about hex that a biological machine -couldn't- do. I'd be surprised if our exact system of handling the data RE: color was quite that efficient or well managed - it;s something that arose, rather than something that was designed task specific. I'd be willing to wager we use a ton of resources to do what a computer using hex does with very little. Hell, even if one nueron could do it (and they look to be incredibly robust units)...I bet our wasteful biology would still throw untold numbers of nuerons at the problem. How would it know any better..heheheh?
@Brian....I think that people just don;t like the way that sounds..alot of unspoken negative connotations. A brain in motion is a pretty damned awesome thing...that one little intro "nothing more than" sours the soup..for some, it seems. Being "nothing more than" a human brain is actually a pretty damn awesome thing to be - in context, imo. Could've been a newt...still might end up one...if I piss off the wrong people.
I didn't really mean like a coma, because there is still experience in that state - dreams etc are not turning off the monitor, just depriving experience of external stimuli (IMO).
OK I stand corrected on your second point, it is a question of language.
What is a matter of language?
No one claims speed is separate from the car in tact and running when it is in motion. If they do they are idiots.
Destroy the structure there is nothing to allow the process.
