...Personally, when it comes to studying how the brain works, I'm more inclined to trust the neuroscientists than anyone else. They think of the brain as what it physically is, a chunk of fatty organ meat in the skull, and that strikes me as a pretty good starting point.
Then on the one hand you've got the strong-AI people, whose description of it as an information-processing system that can be described as an algorithm is probably technically correct, but exists on such a high level of abstraction that it may not be very practically useful. And on the other hand, there are a handful of physicists who are convinced that certain types of fatty organ meat have special quantum-mechanical properties, because if QM measurement and consciousness are both so mysterious they must be the same thing.
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Date: 2005-07-17 06:54 am (UTC)Then on the one hand you've got the strong-AI people, whose description of it as an information-processing system that can be described as an algorithm is probably technically correct, but exists on such a high level of abstraction that it may not be very practically useful. And on the other hand, there are a handful of physicists who are convinced that certain types of fatty organ meat have special quantum-mechanical properties, because if QM measurement and consciousness are both so mysterious they must be the same thing.