Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
by david-gpu on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:52AM
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Do you mean the halting problem in Turing machines?
Okay, we have a proof that a machine can't solve the halting problem for every arbitrary Turing machine, but we can build algorithms that solve it for some cases.
Now, can a human solve the halting problem for every arbitrary Turing machine? We obviously can't, either. Make the machine complex enough and we can't wrap our minds around it.
On the other hand, if there is some guiding (like a programmer), the artificial brain can be functional. If the real brain would be guided by some kind of consciousness, this would work the same.
The consciousness needs to be in a different dimension, in a way that physics does not change. So it would be like a 2D pool table, where we can describe exactly the movement of every ball. But sometimes a ball gets hit by a player, outside the table. And this gives us events that bring the balls to a certain direction.
In similar sense the brain can be played by a consciousness to get it working. In a way that is very hard to detect with physical instruments.