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| Re: Curious, re ILB canon | |
| Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com> | Date: 11/22/11 7:36 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Curious, re ILB canon (Dragonclaws) the_bruce: : And also recall that the AIs aren't explicitly "programmed". A : system is created that flashes the neural networks, effectively taking : that structure and translating it to code. The workings of an AI are, the : way I see, a technical mystery - we didn't figure out the human brain, : we merely converted it to binary (heck by then, probably a whole lot : of quantum computing :) That's exactly it, it's code (and data), it can be unclear to people how it works but coming from a (part of a) human doesn't mean it magically exceeds the bounds of what computers can do-- they run specific instructions, and that's likely how they'll always work. Even with advancements in technology and programming that allow for a more naturalistic method computing it has to be turned into something able to run on a computer. If something in the code is designed to enter other systems that's one thing, but to split like that, and to have that degree of functionality, and to "merge" like that, and maintain sentience the whole time... Dragonclaws:
actually this helps quite nicely-- human brains do not work that way. [Morbo_windmills.jpg etc. etc.] This is sort of a folk medicine/folk psychology legend, there are things that connect the hemispheres besides the corpus collosum, and although it's by far the most major component connecting them and severing it has drastic effects, someone with severed hemispheres is just as much one person as they ever were and barring unrelated circumstances has nearly all of their former abilities. Even the evidence for the two hemispheres doing different things is now being re-examined and some researchers are putting forth a comparison to doing the same things, just differently, partly because which half can do what isn't always the same between people, even with similar genes and the same injury. This kind of trait may well carry over into a virtual/artificial brain/mind, making the division not make any sense.
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