We can simulate the brain of C. elegans, I see no reason why it couldn’t theoretically be scaled up to a human brain. I guess technically you need computation AND a full map of the human brain not just computation for that.
You do have some computing power, though. You compute choices according to processes that are interconnected with all other processes, including genetic evolution and the broader environment.
These choosing-algorithms operate according to causes (“inputs”), which means they are not random. Rather, they can result in the creation of information instead of entropy.
The environment is not something that happens to us. We are part of it. We are informed by it and also inform it in turn, as an output of energy expenditure.
Omega hasn’t run the calculation that you’re running right now. Until you decide, the future is literally undecided.
I think the atoms in my brain will follow the laws of physics until a choice is made. And to me that process feels like I’m deciding something, because that’s what computation feels like from the inside. But actually the outcome is predetermined.
Can you make precise predictions of behaviour, given that information...?
No, but only because I lack the computing power to do so. I very powerful AI could.
Huw do you know that computational power is the only limitation?
We can simulate the brain of C. elegans, I see no reason why it couldn’t theoretically be scaled up to a human brain. I guess technically you need computation AND a full map of the human brain not just computation for that.
How do you know that indeterminism isn’t also a limitation to prediction?
You do have some computing power, though. You compute choices according to processes that are interconnected with all other processes, including genetic evolution and the broader environment.
These choosing-algorithms operate according to causes (“inputs”), which means they are not random. Rather, they can result in the creation of information instead of entropy.
The environment is not something that happens to us. We are part of it. We are informed by it and also inform it in turn, as an output of energy expenditure.
Omega hasn’t run the calculation that you’re running right now. Until you decide, the future is literally undecided.
I think the atoms in my brain will follow the laws of physics until a choice is made. And to me that process feels like I’m deciding something, because that’s what computation feels like from the inside. But actually the outcome is predetermined.