A short talk on Cognitive Science and AI (part 2/2)

[poloikary]

hi i´m going to groningen on april, i would like to know you and talk about you research :) i PhD student of neuroscience from Chile.

Greetings

[Thrashaero]

I think if you're going to define consciousness at any great detail however, we're going to need to figure out how to make a different communication system than with the words we use today.

Words get the idea across in a serial manner and then requires different wording to have some sort of rounded idea about what is going on. Very slow and plodding. It would be nicer however if there was a way to copy a data set from a brain that is trying to express it..

[Thrashaero]

@Thrashaero ...and feed it into the same areas that another brain could look at and see what the ideas actually are, as literally reading a person's mind on that idea, seeing the same connections, albeit missing a lot, there will be a lot of others in common. of course, i'm getting in over my head describing what I had in mind, running into some kind of irony at trying to figure out a better way to convey the truth of the mind, i'm of course faltering at getting out what i thought would work...

[Thrashaero]

I share your enthusiasm. I just don't have the education or the connections to really get into it...yet i guess.

I was thinking earlier, that no matter how much people try to define consciousness, it's going to be seen as the wrong way of it working, especially given the incredible amount of things that can be percieved. I don't know very great detail about the brain, but I've had several theories on what I do know and they're all very different from each other...

[Thrashaero]

@Thrashaero ...and that I'm sure those with much higher educations would agree, of course, given their separation of disciplines, however, they may all be correct in some fashion. To define presciously what is meant by consciousness involves a shitload of specification to even ask the question, to which there will be multiple answers, change one specification and you get multiple answers. I'm not saying every wild guess is correct but it may be pointless to determine when we know enough.

[Thrashaero]

I'd really like to see some science on what invokes fear. what exactly is happening when people lose their marbles or are completely scared out of their wits.

I think it's like hitting the edge of what you know, and staring into an abyss where only mental projections can fill, and whatever comes out are the daemons running that you haven't debugged and turned off yet in life.

[Goobag]

Thank you for posting this.

[bob80108]

Thanks for posting! I'm also interesting in the big picture, and how the different sub-disciplines involved can be independent and fit together