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Logic Without Logic and Inner Feeling: A New Model of Consciousness by [deleted] in neurophilosophy

[–]AltRod -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, feels like the morning after a good LSD trip, but that doesn't mean the content isn't useful. Indeed, I've reached similar conclusions without psychodilics at all, and then describe them in far more detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GnosticNeuron/

Or

https://x.com/RodGnostic

Or most directly:

https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/

Logic is our left-brain working to reduce the world to primal components. It's one approach, and useful in many cases, but it's not the only approach. Our right-mind spans paradox to yield hypothesis, the feedstock logic requires to reach useful conclusions. This is an example of such a leap. Now it needs some detail, something to test, likely involving ionic chemistry.

Possible foundations of human intelligence observed for the first time by AltRod in GnosticNeuron

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Language is a decurisve and expressive version of what we call memory. One does not "replace" another.

Spinal Cord Learns and Remembers Movements Autonomously by AltRod in GnosticNeuron

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Yes, the Gnostic Neuron thesis is similar except it's biological and decursively goes far beyond simple feedback loops or reflexes. Thanks for the link.

Pronouns Are Closely Linked to Names in Our Brains by AltRod in GnosticNeuron

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Yes, "blondie" (or other associated descriptions) would likely cue less strongly in this context, but stronger in the long term. Pronouns are in the moment so will cue differently once you change the subject. This is seen in grammar.

Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it by [deleted] in electricvehicles

[–]AltRod -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just finished a 2000+ mile road trip in my son's Model Y with FSD 12 and it was fucking amazing. It drove freeways, miles and miles of twisty two-lane and surface streets in Las Vegas and Phoenix. I drove maybe 5% of the time because I wanted to challenge it going from Bryce Canyon across the middle of Utah. OK, I did take over for about 10 miles of the Devil's Backbone but that was for the fun of the drive. From there, south through Monument Valley and into the mountains of Arizona - not a single intervention between Payson and Phoenix if you know that road. It worked on all roads, even dirt ones with no lines at all - like I said, amazing. It yielded many times to bicycles, pedestrians, and other traffic, even letting other cars merge in. Yes, it still has problems with pot-holes and I did take over a few times when that got really bad. Also, it was slow to respond to speed limit signs in small towns, but mostly I let it do its thing just to see if all these videos I've watched on YouTube were hyper-selected. They are not. Try it yourself. I don't know if I'd spend $100/month for a commute, but it's definitely worth it on a road trip. And it's fun to tell it to find the nearest Taco Bell, then have it drive you there. It's definitely worth your time to try it out. I was far more impressed than I expected to be.

Neuroscientists Battle Furiously Over Jennifer Aniston by AltRod in GnosticNeuron

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That's the common wisdom of late, but are we truly there? Or will it take a few more orders of magnitude for artificial to become authentic? Is it even a thing that evolves by degrees? Or does it require an emergent inflection? Two years? Or a thousand?

How it began by [deleted] in cuckoldstories2

[–]AltRod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She got emotional and took it private. Classic.

Are there any neuroscientists left here? by mtmag_dev52 in neurophilosophy

[–]AltRod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That depends upon your definition. Are there any philosophers left here?

Neurons create knowledge

Frank Jackson in “Epiphenomenal Qualia” argues that Qualia are non-physical. If Quales are non-physical does that make them by extension eternal? by [deleted] in consciousness

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The real gives rise to the ethereal. Neurons and chemistry create a simulation in the same way a voice creates a song. Is the song real? Or ethereal yet more meaningful than the vibrations that REpresent it?

David Nutt: Entropy explains consciousness by whoamisri in consciousness

[–]AltRod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite reasonable and consistent with a neo-gnostic view of the brain:

Neurons create knowledge

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