Comments for Better Living Through Software http://netcrucible.com/blog Software, poetry, and philosophy Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on A Function for Consciousness by Sean http://netcrucible.com/blog/2012/07/28/a-function-for-consciousness/#comment-356 Sean Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:21:28 +0000 http://netcrucible.com/blog/?p=1030#comment-356 This was a thought provoking read, I too am suprised that most science minded folk and programmers want to insist it is a feedback loop neural network which at some certain degree of complexity, has this self-awareness and sentience emerge. Emergence doesn’t cut it for me, I think penrose mentioned structures that could potentially resemble quantum nano-tubules but I never saw anything scientific published on that hypothesis so I doubt it. One thing is for sure, the mind/body problem is far from solved.

]]> Comment on Puzzling About Solipsism by Joshua http://netcrucible.com/blog/2012/06/19/puzzling-about-solipsism/#comment-354 Joshua Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:20:12 +0000 http://netcrucible.com/blog/?p=1005#comment-354 Yes, I’ve seen your paper and code, and I think the 15+ hypotheses theory holds for a great many scenarios. A broad sample space is essential for most decision making.

I’m more interested in the cases (whether minority or not) where there are clear contradictions and dualisms, and motivation to keep both in mind, with conviction. I believe that, out of the 15-10,000 hypotheses we consider, we tend to settle on only two, and we allow ourselves to “wobble” between those two.

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