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Topic: Information as an Information Processor in the Brain
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Leonid Andreev
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posted 25. May 2002 03:07
With all the plethora of works on biochemistry, biophysics, philosophy, etc. of the brain processes and all the phenomenal progress in the study of anatomical and functional peculiarities of the human and animal brain, all what modern sciences have to offer as answers to the questions on how and in what form information is stored in the brain and what its physical nature is, resemble a “stream of consciousness”- type reasoning where the attributes of the divine implications are replaced by the attributes of the subatomic constructs of the Universe, that can never be experimentally verified in a complex. An apparent fruitlessness of the straightforward or hidden reductionism suggests that it is time to give a consideration to any metaphysical ideas, for they may – if not bring us closer to understanding of consciousness – at least help us to formulate what exactly we are trying to understand.
My hypothesis is that brain neurons serve as a “mechanical processor” (biological hardware) supporting the transformation of information into an information-based processor (info-hardware) that, by itself, is capable of information processing. Thus, reasoning is based on using information for information processing. I would be interested in discussing this thesis in more details. For those who are willing to read about the method for information resolution “in bulk” similar to partition chromatography process, it is presented on my website www.matrixreasoning.com. The concept and the experimental results allow for an assumption that information is capable for aggregation and can be disjointed into blocks.
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TechBrain
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posted 30. May 2002 02:34
At first approach, the idea proposed by Leonid Andreev sounds like a sci-fi concept; however, upon mulling it over, it indubitably seems to be able to provide a platform for explanations both to the brain functionality and the mechanism of consciousness, and ? which is no less intriguing ? to highlight a new direction to proceed along. I have no clue as to what type of algorithm has been used as the basis for the model of non-biological intelligence described on www.matrixreasoning.com, but I hope that the claim of parallel processing is for real (not just conditionally parallel). Obviously, the author?s model of non-biological intelligence must have invoked in him some analogies leading to the idea of a virtual processor of information. It would be interesting to hear more about the concept. As for the analogy between matrix transformation and synapses, it certainly deserves serious consideration.
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