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Neurobiology: The Myth That Consciousness Will Never Be Solved

Neurobiology: The Myth That Consciousness Will Never Be Solved

There is a new article, Neuroscientist Loses a 25-Year Bet on Consciousness — to a Philosopher, concluding with the remarks: "The easy problem, which the wager focused on, is identifying the neural correlates of consciousness. It turns out the easy problem isn’t all that easy. Given that the easy problem is actually hard, the (really) “hard” problem of how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective conscious experience probably will remain unsolved for a very long time to come. Perhaps it will never be solved."

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Sentience: Do Neural Ensembles or Engram Cells Power Consciousness?

Sentience: Do Neural Ensembles or Engram Cells Power Consciousness?

There is a new paper in Cerebral Cortex, In Vivo Ephaptic Coupling Allows Memory Network Formation, where the authors 'predicted that the brain's electric fields guide neurons to produce memories'.

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LLMs: 3 Paths to Generative AI Regulation

LLMs: 3 Paths to Generative AI Regulation

There are 3 paths to regulating AI, approaching from a direction of corrections from the negative impact of social media: emotions division, AI reader and conceptual model of the human mind.

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LLMs: Chinese Room Argument, AI Intelligence and Sentience

LLMs: Chinese Room Argument, AI Intelligence and Sentience

There is a 1980 paper, "Mind, Brains and Programs", describing what is known as the Chinese Room Argument where the author wrote, "Suppose that I'm locked in a room and given a large batch of Chinese writing. Suppose furthermore (as is indeed the case) that I know no Chinese, either written or spoken, and that I'm not even confident that I could recognize Chinese writing as Chinese writing distinct from, say, Japanese writing or meaningless squiggles. To me, Chinese writing is just so many meaningless squiggles."

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Philosophy: The Mind as the Interaction of Impulses or Consciousness

Philosophy: The Mind as the Interaction of Impulses or Consciousness

There is a recent article on Vox, "Why Scientists Haven’t Cracked Consciousness", writing summaries on the field that included the paragraphs, "Meanwhile, Karl Friston, the world’s most-cited living neuroscientist, has an idea called the free-energy principle.

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