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[-] Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

My dude it's math all the way down. Brains are not magic.

[-] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

There's a lot we understand about the brain, but there is so much more we dont understand about the brain and "awareness" in general. It may not be magic, but it certainly isnt 100% understood.

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

We don’t need to understand cognition, nor for it to work the same as machine learning models, to say it’s essentially a statistical model

It’s enough to say that cognition is a black box process that takes sensory inputs to grow and learn, producing outputs like muscle commands.

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

You can abstract everything down to that level, doesn't make it any more right.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, that's physics. We abstract things down to their constituent parts, to figure out what they are made up of, and how they work. Human brains aren't straightforward computers, so they must rely on statistics if there is nothing non-physical (a "soul" or something).

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