[QUOTE=Xolo;27571771]Well, it's just like a normal computer, only more efficient, transistor-dense, and made of primarily carbon and water as opposed to silicon.
That makes me think: if you could "reproduce" a human in exact form, only made of steel and with servos, transistors and sensors as opposed to our muscles, neurons and nerves would it be human?[/QUOTE]
I would consider it a living creature and give it the same right as humans, but it's not a human.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;27571001]With the quantum computers that are being developed now, I wonder if we'll eventually be able to surpass the human brain...
Scary to think about.[/QUOTE]
We still have emotions and the ability to think illogically.
Which is why we will [B]always[/B] be superior to computers, no matter their processing power or AI advancements. They seek victory through logic, and that's pretty much why they'd lose.
Our brain is like, the worst and the best computer ever made. It has a massive power drainage, needs improving all the time, can break easily, customizes in a retarded fashion and most of all, it has the most processing power.
It's like you would donate 10 billion dollars to a housefly.
[QUOTE=Xolo;27571835]Seems pretty unethical to me, considering criminals are often motivated by mental conditions or bad parenting.
I guess that boils down to what you consider a decision, though. If a decision is influenced by mental problems or shitty upbringing, should a person be punished for that decision?
I think rehabilitation is a better option.[/QUOTE]
Sure, for example some psychopaths who murders innocent people should end up in the loony bin in strains and medicated or "rehabbed" through that.
but you don't seem to realize that for pretty much always as for the "good" and "bad" morals there has always been both ends present throughout history and nowadays it's just a mix between the two.
Second, not even the law up to this day can define the matter of trust, so that's one reason why people keep getting all kinda aggressions and ending up convincing themselves that for example murdering someone is actually a good idea, whereas you or any other reading the news about it would call it just plain damn stupid and cruel or whateer
So.. it's not that simple as saying "bawwhaww all these hundreds of men sitting in prison had a drunk father, get them to rehab", i'm sure many of them are all aware of their own shit, but regardless they are people.. with brains.
[QUOTE=Sabrina;27572344]We still have emotions and the ability to think illogically.
Which is why we will [B]always[/B] be superior to computers, no matter their processing power or AI advancements. They seek victory through logic, and that's pretty much why they'd lose.
Our brain is like, the worst and the best computer ever made. It has a massive power drainage, needs improving all the time, can break easily, customizes in a retarded fashion and most of all, it has the most processing power.
It's like you would donate 10 billion dollars to a housefly.[/QUOTE]
Good thing logic doesn't play fair. Also, computers would make for good law enforcement system. They don't have emotions so they can't be corrupt.
[editline]21st January 2011[/editline]
I support trans-humanism.
I wish I had one of those. :smith:
I never knew our brains were that awesome.
It's fucking amazing, sometimes I go to my psychologist, and all we do is talk about how the brain works, and other interesting psychology matters rather than therapy, which I pay him for, but its ok because Sometimes if we don't talk therapy enough, he doesn't charge me.
"I'm a cybernetic organism, learning computah"
I love my brain. Once I touched it when I jammed a crayon waaaaaay up my nose.
Implying my brain wasn't cool in the first place. :colbert:
Cool info though.
Yeah, that's how zombie apocalypses start :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Esteam;27573294]I love my brain. Once I touched it when I jammed a crayon waaaaaay up my nose.[/QUOTE]
Impossible, your sinuses do not have any connection to your brain, it is the hairs in your nose that allow you to smell.
It is cold as hell in my room. No shit it is cool!
yeah brains are cool but really they're not that amazing
everyone has one
[editline]22nd January 2011[/editline]
also it's my opinion that souls dont exist
Is that thing you hear now and then about "You only use 20% of your brain capacity" actually true? Or is it all bullshit?
Computers can have emotion and shit too if you program them to do that
[QUOTE=Xolo;27573818]Computers can have emotion and shit too if you program them to do that[/QUOTE]
Yes, but do they actually experience the emotions instead of just displaying them?
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;27571232]How do I upgrade my brain's RAM guys[/QUOTE]
We don't need you making dumb\[B]random[/B] comments at a faster pace now.
[QUOTE=booster;27573677]Is that thing you hear now and then about "You only use 20% of your brain capacity" actually true? Or is it all bullshit?[/QUOTE]
Myth.
And apparently the total length of your veins, arteries and capillaries is about 60,000 miles. :v:
I had a discussion a few years back with a fellow facepuncher on the way to school about how awesome the human brain is.
[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;27573385]Impossible, your sinuses do not have any connection to your brain, it is the hairs in your nose that allow you to smell.[/QUOTE]
:frog:
Prebuilt brains are overpriced, build your own.
[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;27574020]Yes, but do they actually experience the emotions instead of just displaying them?[/QUOTE]
Maybe not currently, but it's perfectly feasible to think that robots may reach such a level in time.
Besides, the only person you can know for certain is experiencing emotions is yourself.
I believe in quite hard functionalism, so I believe that a huge team of flag-wavers, when performing the same functions as a brain, in themselves have consciousness/phenomenological states/what-is-it-likeness/whatever you want to call it.
I read a really fascinating essay on consciousness earlier (because I'm studying for an exam on the self, mind and body tomorrow):
[url]http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/E4/eb4.html[/url]
I believe relativism is the most defensible position, so I hold the view that "Everything has some consciousness. An atom has only a little of it. Bigger things must have it in larger degrees— right up to the stars and the galaxies."
Quite a warming thought, that the cosmos may itself have some form of sentience, far above our own.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;27575331]Quite a warming thought, that the cosmos may itself have some form of sentience, far above our own.[/QUOTE]
wait.....so, god?
[QUOTE=nigfops;27575364]wait.....so, god?[/QUOTE]
No, all the cosmoses hang around the space water cooler and talk shit all day.
brains are awesome
[QUOTE=Esteam;27574991]:frog:[/QUOTE]
You forget the point, someone cannot cram a crayon down a thousandth of a inch sized hole.
Does this mean my brain can play crysis?
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