rucksackmac
rucksackmac t1_iwszdox wrote
Reply to comment by DeepFuckingVision in The Solution of Evil by baileyjn8
Eastern belief systems I find have an easier time dealing with the concepts of good and evil. If I smush a spider that was going to bite me, that was good from my perspective, as I don't want to get bit. But it was evil from the spider's perspective, who didn't want to die.
The idea that the individual is the final arbiter of good and evil is problematic to say the least.
rucksackmac t1_iwsxayq wrote
Reply to comment by salbris in Dark matter may be information itself by newsphilosophy
Oof. Now we're tiptoeing into an ontological realm of the mind-body question, the hard problem, and other philosophical conundrums.
Careful with that word "just". How exactly is that thought "just" anything? What are the coordinates of these neurons, which synapses fire each time when I think "blue." Is it different than the word? Or the color? Or the idea of the color? What is the thing that it feels like to be?
Comparing our brain to a jpeg on a hard drive is far from accurate, and not very poetic either I might add. :P
rucksackmac t1_ixcii2r wrote
Reply to comment by salbris in Dark matter may be information itself by newsphilosophy
I said nothing of magic, friend. Why would you hand wave away great fields of thought and discovery as "magic?" That doesn't sound very sciencey!
The "computer" metaphor, so to speak, has been long outdated, and widely understood by neuroscientists as a pointless comparison.
If you're open to some light reading, these are pretty good eli15 places to start.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2022.810358/full
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
https://www.infoq.com/articles/brain-not-computer/
Calling our brain a computer is "just" a cliche that people have come to purport as hard truth and fact because the brain is so difficult to understand, while transistors sending signals in a CPU is not.
It's easier to tie it up in a neat bow and say "oh there it is. Done." But I don't see any Bladerunner level robots running around, and there's good reason for it. If we ever hope to achieve such a feat, we have to accept that the brain is still an incredible mystery, and our colloquial comparisons to my laptop or even some kind of marketing AI or digital art ai is simply not comparable by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm just some Redditor, read up on the matter because if you're open to expanding your understanding I actually think you'll find it quite interesting. Personally it only makes me further curious about what AI could look like 1000 years from now and what we might need to get there.