I agree with everything you said in your e-mail and I find the idea that the
brain was not constructed to take certain inputs quite interesting, although
not plausible in the real world. Although it is clear that the discussions
pertaining to Cherniak's story are simply speculative, it is hard for me to
imagine some phrase or word that would render the human mind numb. Since we
are only dealing with speculation and there are virtually no actual proofs
that our brain is not flawless, I am still inclined to believe that machines
will continue to resemble the mind but never become identical to it.
-- Andrei Banica jaxul@yorku.caQuoting jstyle@yorku.ca:
> Given Professor Stepran's suggestion that there is the possiility for unexpe > > cted behaviour to emerge in biological systems, then would it be safe also to > > ascertain that a hypothetical system, whose behaviours resemble the basic > human > thought responses, to then, display consiousness or a form of it. > > I have presented this point as a metaphorical allegory to my point. In the > movie PI (1998). There was a machine whose sole purpose was to find patterns > on > the stock market, when the computer crashed, it printed out a number, that > some > argued contained the name of God. For Cerniak's story, the subjects fell into > a > coma coming to the realization of some sort of "truth" , if the same was > applied to any machine, that does not come "wired" (apologies for the > gratuituous quotes), for the aformentioned truth, then wouldn't it cause it > to > crash? as mentioned before by my previous posts. > > One of my classmates also argued for the possibility of a recursive loop. > Whenever a computer program enters an instruction block containing an endless > > loop, this will cause a memory leak, and will ultimately peak with some sort > of > system malfunction, controllable, or otherwise. > > Now for the case of the Riddle, let it be a set of unprocessable instructions > > that causes and endless loop in the mind, causing it to crash (or as Mary > Ann > put it, the mind tunes out, although i may slightly disagree with that point > > since I think that what happens is that the brain is just not constructed to > > take the input it's being given, but I digress ). > > ___________________________________________________________________ > This message was sent to the math3500 discussion list by jstyle@yorku.ca . > ___________________________________________________________________ This message was sent to the math3500 discussion list by Andrei Banica <jaxul@yorku.ca> .
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