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Author Topic:   Biocentrism - How life creates the universe
crashfrog
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Message 53 of 62 (569196)
07-20-2010 7:41 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by GDR
07-20-2010 7:30 PM


Let's say that I wanted to build or design a brain that could talk to itself. That is, it could experience the "inner monologue", that practice we frequently do where we hear our own speech inside our minds without actually engaging in the physical act of speech.
Let's further say that this brain already had discrete areas for both the production of language-based speech, and for the interpretation of language-based speech as heard from others.
Couldn't I design such a brain such that the areas for speech generation and speech interpretation could be voluntarily connected? Wouldn't that generate the sensation of hearing your own voice in your mind, even though you weren't actually speaking?

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crashfrog
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Message 57 of 62 (569458)
07-21-2010 9:04 PM
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07-21-2010 11:06 AM


I guess the point would be that you hear the speech in your head but somebody with a stethoscope up to your head wouldn't hear it.
Why would they?
As he says: where is the playback?
That's like asking "where do the tiny men inside my TV go when I turn it off?" What is this guy, a child? A Flintstone? How idiotic. "I don't hear the thoughts in other people's heads; therefore souls."
I mean come the fuck on!

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Message 61 of 62 (569826)
07-23-2010 10:45 PM
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07-23-2010 10:16 PM


Well, since computers are reverse engineered biological brains created by human beings, wouldn't that make sense?
That's not really... I mean, computers are a lot less like "reverse-engineered brains" and a lot more like "mathematics made physical."
The first computer scientists were mathematicians, not biologists.

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