Comments on: Study offers new clue on how brain processes visual information http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-offers-new-clue-on-how-brain-processes-visual-information Accelerating Intelligence Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-offers-new-clue-on-how-brain-processes-visual-information/comment-page-1#comment-25925 GatorALLin Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:51:11 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156609#comment-25925 All animals have basic pattern recognition built in as a core learning tool. Our puppy would run in the field and any flower or tall plant that would stand out would get his attention. I noticed he would pee on them... then realized that other older dogs would do the same thing... he quickly realized anything sticking out in the field were calling cards or scent spots to check out... and the filed was huge... When we walk him in the neighborhood he notices anything out of place... a garbage can out by the house or any single thing out of place on a 2 mile walk you see him notice. My gut says every animal builds a very fast library of visual images and learns to scan and use pattern recognition very quickly. All animals have basic pattern recognition built in as a core learning tool. Our puppy would run in the field and any flower or tall plant that would stand out would get his attention. I noticed he would pee on them… then realized that other older dogs would do the same thing… he quickly realized anything sticking out in the field were calling cards or scent spots to check out… and the filed was huge… When we walk him in the neighborhood he notices anything out of place… a garbage can out by the house or any single thing out of place on a 2 mile walk you see him notice. My gut says every animal builds a very fast library of visual images and learns to scan and use pattern recognition very quickly.

]]> By: Doc C http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-offers-new-clue-on-how-brain-processes-visual-information/comment-page-1#comment-25904 Doc C Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:48:55 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156609#comment-25904 A delusion implies a perception unlinked to a reality. A "me" that is capable of changing its environment based on its underlying operational processes is not a delusion. So, for exale, if I say I want my body waste to be processed away from where I eat and sleep, and build plumbing, where is the delusion? A delusion implies a perception unlinked to a reality. A “me” that is capable of changing its environment based on its underlying operational processes is not a delusion. So, for exale, if I say I want my body waste to be processed away from where I eat and sleep, and build plumbing, where is the delusion?

]]> By: Jon http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-offers-new-clue-on-how-brain-processes-visual-information/comment-page-1#comment-25809 Jon Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:59:36 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156609#comment-25809 With the information available today, I'd say 'you' as an emergent property of the functioning of the brain is most likely. That doesn't make our 'self' more or less 'real' than if it were separate from the organic brain, since we experience it the way we do. We experience a sense of self, of conciousness, regardless of it's nature. The continuity of that conciousness is probably the illusion, but again that is irrelevant - as long as we can maintain that illusion. Same goes for free will. I'd love to explore the reality behind it one day, though. Fiddle with my mind's settings and architecture, using nanotechnology most likely. And if the brain is deterministic, and run by its underlying processes, than merely making it more complex (and massive) would make us more aware, and more human. With the information available today, I’d say ‘you’ as an emergent property of the functioning of the brain is most likely. That doesn’t make our ‘self’ more or less ‘real’ than if it were separate from the organic brain, since we experience it the way we do.

We experience a sense of self, of conciousness, regardless of it’s nature. The continuity of that conciousness is probably the illusion, but again that is irrelevant – as long as we can maintain that illusion. Same goes for free will.

I’d love to explore the reality behind it one day, though. Fiddle with my mind’s settings and architecture, using nanotechnology most likely. And if the brain is deterministic, and run by its underlying processes, than merely making it more complex (and massive) would make us more aware, and more human.

]]> By: Editor http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-offers-new-clue-on-how-brain-processes-visual-information/comment-page-1#comment-25801 Editor Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:32:03 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156609#comment-25801 ... or if "you" is a delusion.... … or if “you” is a delusion….

]]> By: Bri http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-offers-new-clue-on-how-brain-processes-visual-information/comment-page-1#comment-25798 Bri Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:18:00 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156609#comment-25798 Really makes you wonder where the "you" is, in all those circuits. Really makes you wonder where the “you” is, in all those circuits.

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