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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not aware of any class of problem that humans can solve that we don't think are solvable by sufficiently large computers.

That is a really good point...hrmmm

My conjecture is that some "super Turing" calculation is required for consciousness to arise. But that super Turing calculation might not be necessary for anything else like logic, balance, visual processing, etc

However, if the brain is capable of something super Turing, I also don't see why that property wouldn't translate to super Turing "higher order" brain functions like logic...

[–] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

We certainly haven't ruled out the possibility that the human brain is capable of some sort of "super Turing" calculations. That would lead me to 2 questions;

  1. Can we devise some test to show this? If we expand our definition of "test" to include anything we can measure, directly or indirectly, through our senses?

  2. What do we think is the "magic" ingredient that allows humans to engage in "super turing" activities, that a computer doesn't have? eg Are carbon compounds inherently more suited to intelligence than silicon compounds?