![]() Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990’s and 2000’s. What I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman’s Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. Neuronal firing is a physical process and no amount of structural complexity can escape this fact. In the same way, just because we may never be able to create a predictive model for how a brain works doesn’t mean that the brain isn’t still beholden to physical laws. Just because we can’t predict the weather doesn’t mean we somehow imagine that the weather is free to choose what it would like to do. This is a good argument for dismantling determinism but it doesn’t create any room for free will. He uses the weather as an example of a similarly complex system (no matter how good science gets we will never be able to predict the weather one year from now). ![]() He said that due to the complexity of the brain and possibly due to paradoxes inherent in self-representational systems it might be impossible to build a model that can determine the future. ![]() Hoel said to be convincing up until a certain point. I do have a degree in neuroscience and found most of what Dr. I found parts of this episode very interesting but ultimately it left me very frustrated with both the host and guest. ![]()
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