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Title: What non-computable factor may occur in the brain?
Post by: smart on 13/04/2017 21:01:35

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‘Non-computability’ and causal agency As shown by Gödel's theorem, Penrose [23] ;  [24] described how the mental quality of ‘understanding’ cannot be encapsulated by any computational system and must derive from some ‘non-computable’ effect. Moreover, the neurocomputational approach to volition, where algorithmic computation completely determines all thought processes, appears to preclude any possibility for independent causal agency, or free will. Something else is needed. What non-computable factor may occur in the brain?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064513001188

Title: Re: What non-computable factor may occur in the brain?
Post by: mrsmith2211 on 13/04/2017 23:56:56

With the right algorithms I believe anything can be replicated, so my thought is consciousness  can be reported by individuals but would you believe a computer if it said it was conscious? 

Title: Re: What non-computable factor may occur in the brain?
Post by: smart on 14/04/2017 10:50:15

Quote from: mrsmith2211 on 13/04/2017 23:56:56

With the right algorithms I believe anything can be replicated, so my thought is consciousness  can be reported by individuals but would you believe a computer if it said it was conscious? 

Could you replicate love and empathy into a machine? I think the resonance energy of our psyche is a non-computable causal agency of our consciousness.