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I came across this article that assumes the notion that man is no more than relatively complicated machines, atleast compared to any other intelligence that we are aware of. If this new branch of study succeeds, then any divinity ascribed to our nature by religious dogma may fall even further into obscurity; essentially scientifically disproving the idea of the soul, may be the first steps in developing and creating true artificial intelligence and may one day lead to being able to predict a person's thoughts and actions before they even know them themselves.
Observation and identification of the basic methodology used by the brain in the process of deriving meaning, of identifying something of significance or of potential significance, we can identify the properties and methods within that methodology that go to giving the species its ability to identify and re-identify and as such we can map-out the basic set of universal categories used in the identification process. From this general perspective we can go on and refine the more particular categorisation systems used in different collectives since those categorisation systems all serve as metaphors for the general categorisation process that is shared across our species as well as across all neuron-dependent species.
I came across this article that assumes the notion that man is no more than relatively complicated machines, atleast compared to any other intelligence that we are aware of. If this new branch of study succeeds, then any divinity ascribed to our nature by religious dogma may fall even further into obscurity; essentially scientifically disproving the idea of the soul, may be the first steps in developing and creating true artificial intelligence and may one day lead to being able to predict a person's thoughts and actions before they even know them themselves.
Observation and identification of the basic methodology used by the brain in the process of deriving meaning, of identifying something of significance or of potential significance, we can identify the properties and methods within that methodology that go to giving the species its ability to identify and re-identify and as such we can map-out the basic set of universal categories used in the identification process. From this general perspective we can go on and refine the more particular categorisation systems used in different collectives since those categorisation systems all serve as metaphors for the general categorisation process that is shared across our species as well as across all neuron-dependent species.
