In a computer the currents are pushed along by an external program running at clock speed. Every tick of the clock, a pattern of voltages is pushed to the next configuration on a linea recta grid on the micro chip. A zillion times per second. And you may have a zillion 1 or 0 voltages, changing a zillion times per second because an external program pushes them along — Haglund
Nonsense. It's a fantasy which it will always stay. Can we construct a brain in a lab? No. The gods far more real. — Haglund
This is completely inaccurate! When you use terms like 'push' or 'external program,' you have to be very clear about the context. External to what? the clock line? the control bus? the processor? RAM space? the computer? — universeness
Well, it seems pretty obvious to me if we cant even construct a neuron — Haglund
A computer uses an external voltage to push the electrons along. This voltage is programmed to push and pull. The spike potentials in the brain run autonomously. The follow the fractal shapes of the neurons, without an external voltage pulling them in a programmed way. — Haglund
Well here's a start: — universeness
Here is another more serious attempt for undergrads: — universeness
Here is an actual claim for Scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute: — universeness
If it walks like a.....squawks like a ......and talks like a......then it is a neuron. — universeness
If it walks like a.....squawks like a ......and talks like a......then it is a neuron. — universeness
But think about it. This won't work. — Haglund
Do your qualifications and years of experience in the field of neuroscience and biological engineering convince you of this or is it just your opinion, your educated guesswork based on your reading in the general area? — universeness
Correction. It's not the human brain that's being uploaded, per OP. It's the mind. Not the same.How is that viewpoint any different from those who claim that we can never know the full workings of the human brain or how consciousness is created and therefore be able to replicate it. — universeness
Don't leave just yet. You'd lower the overall IQ of this thread if you did. :joke:I think that ends this thread for me. Thanks for the exchange. — universeness
Correction. It's not the human brain that's being uploaded, per OP. It's the mind. Not the same. — L'éléphant
Don't leave just yet. You'd lower the overall IQ of this thread if you did — L'éléphant
So have every member of this Forum I reckon. — universeness
Enjoy your fantasies! Thanks for the exchange!
— Haglund
Try to combat your negativity. — universeness
Don't think so. I have rather detailed knowledge of the workings of the brain. It's a huge analogue, life simulator of the world, — Haglund
What negativity? I told you to enjoy your fantasies! Ain't that positive? — Haglund
You have not demonstrated such detailed knowledge so far. You just called the human brain a 'life simulator.' Is your brain a simulator? is it an emulator? Or is it real? — universeness
Your negativity regarding science and the future of our species. Don't stagnate within your polytheist fantasies. Either you pass responsibility for your own life to gods or you claim it as your own and stop scapegoating them. What happens in your life is under natural controls not supernatural controls.
Be all you can be! Stop walking back towards the caves. — universeness
So is your life a simulation? — universeness
If human brains can only produce simulations then human experience is a logical simulation, according to your logic. — universeness
Now you project a logic onto me I didn't use. Why should life be a logical simulation? What's my logic used to conclude that? — Haglund
So YOU are real but YOUR world is a simulation? — universeness
So YOUR gods are real and simulated? — universeness
The logic that YOU claim YOUR brain simulator, simulates! — universeness
The logic that YOU claim YOUR brain simulator, simulates! — universeness
Yes. I am real. What you mean by "YOUR" world? — Haglund
Yes. They are simulated in my brain. — Haglund
Ain't that so then? Is my claim false? — Haglund
But its no LOGICAL simulation, as you claim I said — Haglund
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