The mechanism of action of nerve stimulation is unknown… it is possible that substances are formed under the influence of nerve stimulation
I’m in your brain, releasing your transmitters
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Category: Philosophy/Ethics
Carlo Ierna writes about …
In this blog you will find also some fictional dialogues made between different virtual characters. We thought of doing this to stimulate the reader to identify with the questions or curiosity of the different characters. In fact, each character has their own personality and will interact with others in a different way. If you want to view all the virutal characters and you want more information about please visit the virtual characters page.
Found in Translation
Whereas the notion of a “correct” computation is unproblematic … The notion of a “good” translation is ridden with problems …
The ends justify the rules
Complicated mental processes are entirely reducible to such simple activities as the attentive observation of statements previously accepted as true, the perception of structural, purely external, connections among these statements, and the execution of mechanical transformations as prescribed by the rules of inference
I’m in my Head, Thinking my Thoughts
By ratiocination, I mean computation. […] all ratiocination is comprehended in these two operations of the mind, addition and substraction.
Mental Brains
Hemispherectomy… surgeons have performed this operation hundreds of times for disorders uncontrollable in any other way
My Brain is Me
“There are two things about the human soul on which all the knowledge we can have of its nature depends: one of which is that it thinks, and the other is that, being united to the body, it can act on and be acted upon by it” – Descartes to Elisabeth, 21 May 1643
Things that Think
What do we mean by “thinking”? What are the technical requirements on the machine? Does it need to process information in the same way that humans do? Massively parallel, biochemically, etc. like a human brain?
Natural Born Robots
Rodney Brooks (MIT) introduces Nouvell AI, also called fundamentalist AI. He compares and contrasts his Nouvell AI with the then-mainstream…
Voodoo Neuronics
The approach to discover the rules of all thinking and putting them in a computer failed by and large, instead programmers started looking more in detail at how human brains worked…
Is thought just a program?
Is thought just a program?
Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
The world is not a chessboard
A machine that could think like a person has been the guiding vision of AI research since the earliest days…
Putting the “Artificial” in “Intelligence”
A machine that could think like a person has been the guiding vision of AI research since the earliest days…
Captain Cyborg
Even if we cannot upload our consciousness to the cloud, what if we could send our own sensations and memories to another person? Can we really transfer information brain-to-brain over the internet? Do we need to worry that this could turn us into remotely controlled puppets? Never fear! Captain Cyborg is here to test invasive technologies so you don’t have to!