[ExI] all we are is just llms

[Jason Resch]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 9:07 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] all we are is just llms
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> On 25/04/2023 00:00, spike wrote:
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> >>…In any case, I don’t know what that spike-trains business is about.
> Ben, do explain please.  Sounds kinda cool.
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> http://www.neuwritewest.org/blog/2015/1/3/ask-a-neuroscientist-whats-a-spike-train
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> >…Not to get too technical, neurons 'fire' by depolarising the cell
> membrane. …One other thing I will say: biology is messy. …. The brain is
> like a computer in some ways, and not like one in others, is really all you
> can sensibly say…Ben
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> Cool thx Ben.  I had never thought of it that way, but it is a cause for
> hope.  If we find enough ways a brain is like a computer, it suggests a
> mind can (in theory) exist in a computer, which is something I have long
> believed and hoped is true.  If thought is substrate dependent on biology,
> we are all sunk in the long run.
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I think the question of how alike or unalike the brain is to/from computers
as orthogonal to the question of whether or not thought is substrate
dependant. What matters is whether the brain does anything that a computer
could not emulate/simulate.

Jason

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