Memory is coding.
“Memory traces” are networks of neurologically encoded patterns within cortical circuits
The work on identifying all the variety of cortical circuits is fascinating. There are cortical columns that operate is some ways similar to the parallel processing (and hyper-threading) of GPU’s
All data is meaningless without context.
Context is the human condition.
Culture is the vehicle for transmitting meaning.
Culture is a loaded word, but I’m referring to the sociological phenomenons outlines by Bourdieu and Luckmann and Durkheim and Weber and Pareto and Marshall and Parsons and Bergson and etc etc etc
I think that there are many layers of processing
Just like a cortical circuit, which has different layers of higher and lower and lateral processing, I think the brain operates similarly.
Think the triune brain.
On a computer there are layers of processes supporting the user experience, hidden in the background.
I think if we get achieve biomimetic circuitry we’ll be on our way to creating true artificial AI
We’re machines at the end of the day.
I think there’s something unique about our hardware, which increased complexity exponentially
Like, what about chemical circuits?
What are the circuitry within Cells?
Do cells have memory?
How does this effect the neurological networks that encode memory traces?
There are two types of programming.
Ones on the software layer: nurture.
The other is the hardware layer: nature.
Some animals don’t need enculturation to survive.
Some do.
Maybe the key to true AI is figuring out how the hardware programming and software programming work together
I feel like Consciousness requires software programming. It seems to be a product of socialization.
I think we need to continue to study the brains circuitry, and continue to replicate what’s happening in the brain.
Try to develop hardware to replicate the memory traces being encoded.
Cognition is embodied.
It doesn’t exist without the context of the human condition, which includes the physical form, the integration of the senses and appendages and organs.
To replicate human consciousness without the embodied cognition that developed it, would be a seemingly impossible task.
Hormones are next level.
That’s a whole additional layer of processing
The neurons in the gut
Our central nervous system:
All that feeds into the brain
And some
Our physical form must have some impact on our cognitive development, our capacity for spatial reasoning.
The word “concept” comes from the Latin work concipere, from com- ‘together’ + capere ‘take/grasp’.
Without hands, how does one take or grasp? I dunno. I just wonder how all this influenced our ability to reason
Like you said, 100 billion neurons….
For comparison, there are a 100 billion galaxies in the universe
Geometry can be argued to be the first step in human reasoning.
The ability to abstract contents from the world and model it
Geometry: Latin geometria, from Greek, from gē ‘earth’ + metria (measure).
World modeling. Essentially what we do when we think
So much complexity
In living things
Genetics is mind blowing. That’s a whole crazy world of code in itself.
All living things contain DNA that is composed of sequences or patterns of nucleotides, containing a phosphate group, a sugar group, and four nitrogen bases: (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C).
Every living thing is differentiated by the patterns of these bases.
That’s amazing.
So simple.
Yet the variety of outcomes is infinite
That’s a whole motherfuckin other question
Just string along a bunch of these base pairs and you get fuckin infinite possibility of life
I mean. I think about that. And I just…. like how.
How the fuck.
How.
We’re all composed of unique combinations of these base pairs.
It’s like 1’s and 0’s. It gets almost digital.
I want to know how the hell this shit spontaneously evolved.
There’s no indication it didn’t adhere to the same natural laws as everything else. But how.
There are 3 billion letters in the human genome, patterns of the ATGC
Memory.
DNA is a code, a memory.
We’re ancient as fuck.
I wonder if we’ll ever figure out how to replicate human consciousness
I’m not sure it’s possible if we don’t genetically engineer it
The idea of augmenting the brain with a cybernetic silicone processor is fascinating
Like adding a fourth layer
If there was ever a problem with logic, it would be that it’s efficacy rests entirely upon the assumptions of the propositions used to construct— induce or deduce— an argument or chain of reasoning.
But I’m not sure there’s a better way that logic.
Instincts are reactive, and seem to be hard coded from ancient epigenetic programming. Like, our aversion to snakes or snake like things is a primitive response. They probably contain a lot of wisdom, but I imagine it’s still dependent on some perceptual programming, much of which is enculturated.
I feel like with the right reasoning abilities, perhaps the training and methods of philosophy, we can attempt to overcome the limitations of logic by constantly reevaluating our assumptions
Tweaking them
Experimentation is critical for this.
Gathering more exposures and experience. Challenging assumptions.
Not so much doing the exercise of logic. But examining the foundations which this logic is built upon.
Most of our assumptions are not chosen.
Thats the catch.
We are socialized with assumptions, we are programming by family and society and influences
If the cultural values which undergird our assumptions are faulty or inaccurate, the logic we employ will lead us to ruin
The difference of logically “valid” and logically “sound” reasoning rests on the veracity of the premises
You can have a logically valid chain of reasoning, where the logical operations lead to a valid conclusion.
But if the premises are not true, the chain of reasoning is unsound.
Premises are assumptions
The task of philosophy is to examine the veracity or truth of the premises that guide our thinking
The other catch is, so long as our premises refer to anything about the world, they remain factual, and therefore merely probabilistic.
Depending on the scope of our understanding, the data collected and the cause and effects corroborated about phenomena, including testing and circumscribing the limits of their context, we will have a more or less probably fact, with degrees of certainty
Everything comes down to patterns
At the end of the day it’s not what you see, it’s what you perceive
You can see the same thing, the same frame of phenomena day after day, but the ability to perceive different patterns is contingent on the questions you’re asking. That is, what you’re looking for.
If we don’t know what we’re looking for, or we’re not open to seeing or perceiving differently, new patterns and ways of thinking will evade our mind
This shift in perceiving is what we call a paradigm shift.
Same data, same phenomena, organized differently by our perceptions.
Complexity are these layers of patterns operating or manifesting concurrently within reality.
How they all seem to fit together is incredible.
It’s difficult to perceive multiple patterns simultaneously.
Maybe that’s a blessing.
Question: late Middle English: from Old French question (noun), questionner (verb), from Latin quaestio(n- ), from quaerere ‘ask, seek’.
When you question, you seek.
When you stop questioning, you stop seeking.
seek (v.)
Old English secan “inquire, search for; pursue; long for, wish for, desire; look for, expect from,” influenced by Old Norse soekja, both from Proto-Germanic *sakanan (source also of Old Saxon sokian, Old Frisian seka, Middle Dutch soekan, Old High German suohhan, German suchen, Gothic sokjan), from PIE *sag-yo-, from root *sag- “to track down, seek out” (source also of Latin sagire “to perceive quickly or keenly,” sagus “presaging, predicting,” Old Irish saigim “seek”).
Sage
From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to taste”). The noun meaning “man of profound wisdom” is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece.
Consciousness seems to be an illusion
I think the most important imperative next to identifying and encoding patterns into knowledge, is forming associations between them.
How are all these patterns related?
This is the source of understanding and wisdom. The ability to discern patterns and their interconnectedness.
Everything is one.
William Dare 