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Einstein's Alcove
Can a lightbulb be conscious?
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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 18087" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>On the second point 2Old</p><p></p><p>The process which determines the point at which the neuron fires - or doesnt - maybe down to the algorithm or each input, giving a final 'yes or no' decision, however in the larger scale of things, not every neuron will have the same answer for the same incoming algorithm of messages, as a result of their position in the lattice and conceivably their date of birth. </p><p></p><p>There may even be neurons that have an uncertainty principle built in them, either through faulty construction, because they are past their sell by date, or even as a deliberate mechanism to allow a wider scope of thought outside Vulcan type logic within the being, an illogical gateway as it were that helps broaden the mind. </p><p>Id like to think (sic) in the greater picture, these odd neurons are exactly what makes everyone sense things slightly differently, or individuals looking at things differently when they are sensed at a different time (though this could be as a result of change of the neuron lattice decision tree after the first time). Too many of these illogical gateways in one lattice are however the stuff of paranoia and eventual madness - but not to the individual - as they would have no notion that what thoughts and decisions they make is either wrong or different to the people around them.</p><p></p><p>The combination of events within the lattice therefore is a constantly changing and the consciousness that is created and experienced by virtue of the lattice could not be created within a group of lightbulbs, letalone one.</p><p></p><p>Some laboratories working on powerful processing arrays, have spent vast amounts of time in the past two decades looking at the fuzzy logic principle to initiate a humanlike thought process, which extends beyond absolute logical answers, but as yet has not come up with a box of tricks one would class as sentient.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 18087, member: 175144"] On the second point 2Old The process which determines the point at which the neuron fires - or doesnt - maybe down to the algorithm or each input, giving a final 'yes or no' decision, however in the larger scale of things, not every neuron will have the same answer for the same incoming algorithm of messages, as a result of their position in the lattice and conceivably their date of birth. There may even be neurons that have an uncertainty principle built in them, either through faulty construction, because they are past their sell by date, or even as a deliberate mechanism to allow a wider scope of thought outside Vulcan type logic within the being, an illogical gateway as it were that helps broaden the mind. Id like to think (sic) in the greater picture, these odd neurons are exactly what makes everyone sense things slightly differently, or individuals looking at things differently when they are sensed at a different time (though this could be as a result of change of the neuron lattice decision tree after the first time). Too many of these illogical gateways in one lattice are however the stuff of paranoia and eventual madness - but not to the individual - as they would have no notion that what thoughts and decisions they make is either wrong or different to the people around them. The combination of events within the lattice therefore is a constantly changing and the consciousness that is created and experienced by virtue of the lattice could not be created within a group of lightbulbs, letalone one. Some laboratories working on powerful processing arrays, have spent vast amounts of time in the past two decades looking at the fuzzy logic principle to initiate a humanlike thought process, which extends beyond absolute logical answers, but as yet has not come up with a box of tricks one would class as sentient. [/QUOTE]
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