The Last Natural Man by Robert A. Norman & Sharad P. Paul

Author:Robert A. Norman & Sharad P. Paul
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

This means that natural selection is no longer enough to code new advanced genetic sequences. For human populations to improve their “fitness”, intelligent design needs to design new codes. Necessity may indeed be the mother of new inventions.

Let’s examine consciousness for a bit. At a basic level, being conscious means ‘being awake.’ Therefore if your computer cannot wake itself up every morning, it cannot be conscious, right?

Michael Graziano is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University in New Jersey. His latest book is Consciousness and the Social Brain (Oxford University Press, USA, 2013). In an essay titled, ‘Build-a-Brain’ he describes how human brains perceive objects. For example, if we were to look at a tennis ball bouncing, we would note its color, shape, how high it bounced, the variability of the bounce etc. Our brain constructs something like a dossier, a dataset that is constantly revised as new signals come in. This is what scientists refer to as the “internal model.” However, if we were to ask a robot a few questions regarding the tennis ball, Graziano suggests that the conversation would go something like this18:We ask: ‘What’s there?’

It says: ‘A ball.’

We ask: ‘What are the properties of the ball?’

It says: ‘It’s green, it’s round, it’s at that location.’ It can answer that because the robot contains that information.

Now we ask: ‘Are you aware of the ball?’

It says: ‘Cannot compute.’

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