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by Leog
Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:53 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Why philosophers continue thinking of brain as a black box?
Replies: 10
Views: 3500

Re: Why philosophers continue thinking of brain as a black b

the human brain is intellegent energy and energy moves one way or another in a relative way. the consciousness how ever that the brain is in is not energy and therefor does not move in a relative way to anthing it is independent of the brain.in much but not the exact same way as a photon is indepen...
by Leog
Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:34 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Why philosophers continue thinking of brain as a black box?
Replies: 10
Views: 3500

Re: Why philosophers continue thinking of brain as a black b

Can a computer program conceptualize? I.e. Go from a series of similar (not identical) particular things and pull from it a concept that applies to all of them? Then use said concept to identify future particulars as falling within that class? I've read that AI scientists have had awful problems wi...
by Leog
Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:07 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Why philosophers continue thinking of brain as a black box?
Replies: 10
Views: 3500

Why philosophers continue thinking of brain as a black box?

Hello! I am not a professional philosopher and so may be incorrect in my understanding/knowledge of philosophy. But as far as I understand, all of the philosophers of the past regarded brain as a black box. And this is for reason, as up to nearly 1980-es it was not possible to investigate what reall...