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• A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Nov 3 2009: I don't see why it would have to be orders of magnitude less powerful then the belief that exists in the human mind. I don't even think there is such a thing as "power of a belief". I don't see how it would lead to God, but supposing you are espousing some kind of panpsychism, it would surely not be the kind of God you could pray to, and wait for to perform miracles.

• A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Nov 1 2009: I don't know what parenting has to do with it either.
  You have not supported it, you have stated what you believe is true, but have not given people any reason to think it is in fact so.
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  A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Nov 1 2009: I do have arguments to support what I said in the above post. They are to be found on Steven Pinker's book "How the mind works" and Daniel Dennett's "Consiousness explained". In short (very short), ontological dualism is silly for various reasons (therefore physicalism rules), and the mind is what the brain does, that is, computation. There is no reason to believe there's anything special about the brain as the substrate for a mind, so a computer could perform the necessary computations to have a mind itself. That being so, a computer could have beliefs, and if it is a good simulation of a human mind, it could have beliefs about its own mind states as well, and one of it's beliefs could be the belief that it has mind states, which is what we mean by "I believe I'm conscious".
  
  As I will surely not waste my time explaining what has already been said in those books, if you don't agree with me go ahead and read them.
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  A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Oct 29 2009: Yes, we know that's your opinion, stop parroting it and start making an argument to support it.
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  A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Oct 24 2009: "are we sure that consciousness is located in the brain?" Short answer: Yes.

• A reply on Talk: Michael Merzenich: Growing evidence of brain plasticity

  Oct 24 2009: I have seen references to exercise and neurogenesis in the hippocampus in the textbook "the Cognitive Neurosciences", third edition. However, those are animal models, so one should be careful to extrapolate the data to humans.
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  A reply on Talk: Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny

  Oct 21 2009: Godel's theorem is about axiomatic systems that capable of formulating arithmetic truths and complete. It is not about anything else, and it does not show " that there wil not be any contradiction in this system" is not provable for any system whatsoever.

• A reply on Talk: Michael Merzenich: Growing evidence of brain plasticity

  Oct 21 2009: Usually the other 90% is asking silly questions, but that's just me.
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  A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Oct 21 2009: I suppose we should instead spend our time and money on the secrets that God is willing to disclose to the general public, as opposed to the ones he keeps to Himself and His buddies?
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  A reply on Talk: Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer

  Oct 21 2009: One may find the fact that we just know that we have conscious experiences as sufficient evidence that we are more that neurons and physical stuff. However, it is worth noting that a simulated human brain, not only would behave like a normal human brain, but would also have the same belief that himself is a conscious being, like we do.