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  • I think / hope the brain is just a receiver and our body is a remote controlled avatar with some basic autonomy built in.

    So if the connection is bad or something urgent happens that needs fast reactions the avatar does it.

    Examples: Reflexes, thinking about something in car and arriving at home without remembering driving. Schizophrenia could be a broken receiver that also receives commands and thoughts from someone else. Alien hand syndrome could be similar.

    NDE could be temporary complete connection loss.

    I hope for this because it would allow a (technical) explanation for a life after death




  • You could hold developers of algorithms, logic and even symbolic AI accountable.

    However, it’s a completely different story for AI based on deep neutral networks. After training they’re just a bunch of weights and parameters without individual meaning and it’s not a few, it’s billions or trillions of them. And almost none of them were individually set, they’re often randomly initialized and then automatically tuned by deep learning algorithms during training until the behavior / predictions of the neural net are “good enough”.

    It’s practically impossible to review the network and when you test it you just get the result for the concrete test cases, you can’t interpolate or assume even slightly different cases will behave similarly. You also can’t fix an individual bug. You can just train again or more and this effort might fix the problem but it could also destroy something that worked before (catastrophic forgetting).