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Re:Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem – Interview with... by aaarrm on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:04PM (#42913730)
Neural networks are a simplification of our brains, they are not a replication of it. It is just a modeling method that was inspired by how human neurons work, that's it. It's not 1 to 1 or anything.
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Re:Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem – Interview with... by willy_k on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:00PM (#42914436)
Furthermore, neurons alone do not led to consciousness. At the very least, their modulation, mainly by glial cells, is essential as well.

Personally, my money is on quantum coherence within microtubules being the mechanism of conscious experience, with the brain essentially being a quantum/classical hybrid computer.

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