MIT Neuroscientist Proposes Brain Waves are the Hidden Engine Behind Thought and Consciousness
An MIT neuroscientist proposes that brain waves perform analog computations that give rise to thought and consciousness, and that the restructuring and strenghening of the neural connectome is a separate function that affects future thought but is too slow to be our main processing method.
https://thedebrief.org/mit-neuroscientist-proposes-brain-waves-are-the-hidden-engine-behind-thought-and-consciousness/Open linkView original on piefed.social130
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The scientist may be right...
But that blog also thinks aliens are here and all types of other crazy shit
Are they not here?
I'm pretty sure my neighbours are reptilian....
I mean, if they were here, that would also imply that they could speak and understand English, use Linux, and post on Lemmy.
The probability of travelling interdimensionally only to shit-post on a niche message board is alarmingly high ;)
Maybe I am one.
Without credible evidence, then no. Not as far as we know.
I propose the book is the cause of the story.
Seems plausible. Reminds me of an article from long ago where a person used a training algorithm to get an FPGA to produce the behavior he wanted. The upside being that he got the behavior he wanted using less of the FPGAs capacity then a normally designed circuit would require. The downside was that it wasn't reproducible on other FPGA chips. Whatever made it work required the subtle unique variations of that specific piece of silicon.
Edit: Thanks to tips from peoples comments I found it: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
I have some vague recollection of this article. If I recall correctly the generated circuit consisted of two (or more) subcircuits that were not physically connected but managed to communicate using induced radio waves (which is definitely not something you would typically do with an FPGA).
Updated my comment with link.
Awesome, thanks a lot!
This is interesting… I’d love to read that article
Updated my comment with link.
Try a search for "Dr. Adrian Thompson FPGA". Seems to be exactly what OP is talking about.
Thanks. Updated my comment.
Google spit tons of results for Dr. Adrian Thompson. That it?
Thanks. Updated my comment.
Sure, why not ?
Now prove it.
Or at least try to show it with experiments or something. Ideas are cheap and there are loads of ideas explaining consciousness waiting to be disproven or the lycky winner.
The main scientist in the article has been working on the problem for over 20 years and has one of the most cited articles in neuroscience. It’s a bit further along than just “an idea”: they already have experimental evidence for some of the simpler mechanisms about brainwave propagation and they’re now working on experiments to try and isolate higher functions.
Sure, but don't you think all the other ideas are not backed in similar ways by similarly respected people? Humanity have been thinking about this since forever.
I wish them all the luck, it's one of the most complicated matters out there after all.
Getting real ghost in the shell vibes
Oops, turns out you can actually full dive in real life
Torment nexus go brrrrrrr
What is that?
A Japanese Manga from the late 80s whose protagonist use cyborg suits that they can infiltrate with their consciousness and all sorts of deep thought shit like that. Absolute masterpiece stuff.
A Japanese cyberpunk manga
Better load up my headphones with some binaural beats, looks like I'm going to Geniustown!!!
This reminds me of the analog processors recently discussed in “century-old problem" of poor precision and impracticality.
Nah, it’s weed, fam.
Brain activity is the result of electromagnetic waves, so yes?