Disclaimer: I'm a security expert/computer scientist and have no idea what I'm talking about.
My apologies, I probably won't be answering in the right order.
Ie, again, when you hear the word hello, as you are hearing 'o', you are still aware of the letter h, not by recalling into memory, but your brain when it hears 'o', is still connected to the brain that heard 'h', a moment before (so processing is in 4D, not 3d). If brains could do this, it would be immensely powerful processingwise, and 'consciousness' may be just a side effect of that 4d processing.
Putting aside the Quantum part of the argument, I would like to focus on the temporal element.
The easiest to compare this with, would be to look at how computers process data. Say when the user types his username in order to log in. The computer processes each single press of the keyboard, and puts it in a buffer until we tell it we've arrived at the end of the input (hitting the enter key, for instance). We don't store every single bit of information in the storage memory of the device, but we do use buffers. Once the computer knows he's gotten all the information, he processes it, by calling the storage unit and comparing the buffer to it.
I think the brain must work in the same kind of way. We don't necessarily store everything we hear in our "memories" part of the brain (storage memory), but it stores it in a buffer. Same goes for reading: even though we read every single individual letter, we just keep a copy of that information in a buffer until we can make sense of it [1]. How we treat that buffer later on is of no real importance. We can discard it without ever looking back, or we can store it for later use.
I also seem to recall (please, experts in this field, stop me if I'm wrong) that one part of the brain did linear calculations where the other part did parallel computations.
What is red? What would need to be changed in your brain for anything in your field of view seen as red to appear as blue? Researching this, would tell us again, how the physical connects to the conscious. Then, what needs to be altered in brain memory (ie. physically), for a red box, to be recalled as a blue box. once we knew how to do this, we would be a long way to again understanding the connection to consciousness.
This has always been a very interesting topic for me. We use "red" by convention. We don't suddenly pop-up with the word "red", "rouge" or "rood" in our minds because it's the only way we could ever find to express it. It's a convention.
But what says that everyone sees red the same others do? I know that red is a certain colour, because I've always been using that name for that colour, and people agree with me, when I point something out, that red is red. But how can I be sure that the red I see is interpreted by their brains in the exact same manner as mine does? This is extremely subjective. I know that red is interpreted in a certain way because it's a frequency that my eyes respond to, but what if everyone had a slight variation? Is the colour that my brain presents to my consciousness after interpreting the colour that my eyes give it the same, or if I were to swap eyes with someone else, I would see yellow, even though they'd still call it red?
Similarly, a series of clicks (ie. via a computer) produced on a speaker, as they become more rapid, appears to become a 'tone' around 1/2 a second or quarter of a second or so...entering 'now'. It
relatively uncomplicated situations â" such as a war zone from which all non-combatents have already fled, so that anybody who shoots at you is a legitimate target.
Surely, anyone who shoots at you would not be categorised as "non-combatent", making the whole point useless?
How is a robot returning fire without the certainty that everyone in shooting range isn't a bad guy different from a soldier returning fire with the same limited amount of information?
Same experience here as grandparent. Installed Ubuntu on a friend's old Dell. Upon reboot, we heard the stock Ubuntu sound; my friend looked at me as if he had just seen a ghost: "That hasn't worked in 4 years!"
French ISP Free has been doing for quite a while. Every voice-mail can be forwarded by email to any number of addresses, or listened to on your television through the set-top-box.
It's a great way of getting new alerts, as it probably gives you the best of both worlds. My family still gets to listen to the messages in the usual fashion, and I can keep an ear as I get everything mailed to my Blackberry.
but [Oracle's] core aim is to be the big fish in the pond
Oracle probably has quite close to a 100% market share with Fortune 100 companies, and well over 90% with Fortune 500. They are the big fish in the pond.
Clearly we just need to have a prioritized system of rules embedded at the hardware level of our robots preventing them from harming humans. That way nothing could ever go wrong.
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Intelligence comes in different forms, in different flavours. Our education system is archaic.
My landlord outsourced the plumbing to a foreign country. It never works, and when someone comes to look at it, he's Polish.
My apologies, I probably won't be answering in the right order.
Putting aside the Quantum part of the argument, I would like to focus on the temporal element.
The easiest to compare this with, would be to look at how computers process data. Say when the user types his username in order to log in. The computer processes each single press of the keyboard, and puts it in a buffer until we tell it we've arrived at the end of the input (hitting the enter key, for instance). We don't store every single bit of information in the storage memory of the device, but we do use buffers. Once the computer knows he's gotten all the information, he processes it, by calling the storage unit and comparing the buffer to it.
I think the brain must work in the same kind of way. We don't necessarily store everything we hear in our "memories" part of the brain (storage memory), but it stores it in a buffer. Same goes for reading: even though we read every single individual letter, we just keep a copy of that information in a buffer until we can make sense of it [1]. How we treat that buffer later on is of no real importance. We can discard it without ever looking back, or we can store it for later use.
I also seem to recall (please, experts in this field, stop me if I'm wrong) that one part of the brain did linear calculations where the other part did parallel computations.
This has always been a very interesting topic for me. We use "red" by convention. We don't suddenly pop-up with the word "red", "rouge" or "rood" in our minds because it's the only way we could ever find to express it. It's a convention.
But what says that everyone sees red the same others do? I know that red is a certain colour, because I've always been using that name for that colour, and people agree with me, when I point something out, that red is red. But how can I be sure that the red I see is interpreted by their brains in the exact same manner as mine does? This is extremely subjective. I know that red is interpreted in a certain way because it's a frequency that my eyes respond to, but what if everyone had a slight variation? Is the colour that my brain presents to my consciousness after interpreting the colour that my eyes give it the same, or if I were to swap eyes with someone else, I would see yellow, even though they'd still call it red?
I think those kind of questions might be why people have different tastes. I know I like a certain dress on my fiancée because her eyes stand out like I would never have imagined it. But she only thinks it's so-so. Maybe the underlying cause of my appeal over her apparent unreceptiveness comes from the fact that the colour she sees doesn't exactly match what I see, and as such, doesn't have the same contrast with the colour of eyes or skin.
Looking at the widespread usage of Flash (not that I like it), Flash is considered standard by now?
Safety: condom
Confidence: 40+ minutes
Respect: Waiting for her
Self-esteem: 14+ cm
By your own definition, everything humans need can be attained through sex.
No it doesn't. It's going to show records 6 - 15.
Flame all you want, but at least do it properly.
Unless your friends are cool and run Linuuuuux!
Surely, anyone who shoots at you would not be categorised as "non-combatent", making the whole point useless?
How is a robot returning fire without the certainty that everyone in shooting range isn't a bad guy different from a soldier returning fire with the same limited amount of information?
I don't know how long your weeks are, but hyperbolic or not, 4 * 5 != 35.
I guess that for this post, "YMMV" means "You Make Me Vomit"?
Don't link to the same story as the one you're posting on, don't have the same story open in multiple tabs, GET OUT OF YOUR INFINITE LOOP!
Reisner's Rule of Conceptual Inertia:
If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH
Same experience here as grandparent. Installed Ubuntu on a friend's old Dell. Upon reboot, we heard the stock Ubuntu sound; my friend looked at me as if he had just seen a ghost: "That hasn't worked in 4 years!"
Actually, GameStop has a "PC" section. Not a "Windows" section.
French ISP Free has been doing for quite a while. Every voice-mail can be forwarded by email to any number of addresses, or listened to on your television through the set-top-box.
It's a great way of getting new alerts, as it probably gives you the best of both worlds. My family still gets to listen to the messages in the usual fashion, and I can keep an ear as I get everything mailed to my Blackberry.
They've had billions of years to practise. One of them is bound to get lucky at some point.
Nope, but with the amount I'm paying it feels like one.
I'd rather do it by hand. I'd love to see you divide a pizza in 6 using only your head.
A small laptop that has a keyboard but no mouse. I wonder if Apple could actually do something that innovative.
Oracle probably has quite close to a 100% market share with Fortune 100 companies, and well over 90% with Fortune 500. They are the big fish in the pond.
... of posting the announcement of someone passing on on "entertainment./..org"...
Well yes of course. I forgot the whole wide world had Canada as Northern neighbours.
I take it you've never watched iRobot.
That's because Android runs .dex files.