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THE
HUMAN PSYCHE
TO A STEAM ENGINE?!
TODAY WE KNOW OF A FAR
MORE SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY - the computer -
so we explain the human psyche as if it were a computer
processing data rather than a steam engine regulating pressure!?
But this new analogy may well turn out to be just as naïve? After all, computers
have no minds. They don't crave anything even when they have a bug, and the Internet doesn't even
feel pain when authoritarian regimes sever entire countries from the Web! So why use computers as
a model for understanding the mind!? Well, áre we réally sure that computers have no sensations or
desires? And even if they haven't got any at present, perhaps once the become complex enough they
might develop consciousness? If that were to happen, how could we ascertain it? When computers
replace our bus driver, our teacher & our shrink, how could we determine whether they have feelings
or whether they are just a collection of mindless algorithms? When it comes to humans, we are today
capable of differentiating between conscious mental experiences and non-conscious brain activities....
Though we are far from understanding consciousness, scientists have succeeded in identifying some
of its electrochemical signatures. To do so the scientists started with the assumption that whenever
humans report that the are conscious of something, they can be believed. Based on this
assumption the scientists could then isolate specific
brain patterns that appear every time
humans report being conscious,
but that never appear
during unconscious
states.
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