#gerald edelman

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No, ni LLMs son conscientes ni mi smartphone tiene hambre

Llevo unos días un tanto consternado porque, a pesar de que estoy completamente seguro que mi blog es leído fervientemente en Silicon Valley, ahora se están duplicando los trabajos y publicaciones que hablan de consciencia en grandes modelos de lenguaje con desenfadada frescura y sin demasiado pudor. No obstante, también me da cierta alegría que el campo de la machine consciousness, que lleva…

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Masao Yamamoto

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‘Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.’

Gerald Edelman (Nobel Prize 1972) quoted by Oliver Sacks in his book ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain’.

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Edelman in his lab at Rockefeller University

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The book ‘Second nature’ by Gerald Edelman is a very interesting approach to the epistemology of brain science. “Burgeoning advancements in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness―the very center of human concern―by scientific means. In this illuminating book, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman offers a new theory of knowledge based on striking scientific findings about how the brain works. And he addresses the related compelling question: Does the latest research imply that all knowledge can be reduced to scientific description? Edelman’s brain-based approach to knowledge has rich implications for our understanding of creativity, of the normal and abnormal functioning of the brain, and of the connections among the different ways we have of knowing. While the gulf between science and the humanities and their respective views of the world has seemed enormous in the past, the author shows that their differences can be dissolved by considering their origins in brain functions. He foresees a day when brain-based devices will be conscious, and he reflects on this and other fascinating ideas about how we come to know the world and ourselves.”

“Truth is not a given, it is a value that must be worked for during our personal and interpersonal interactions. The richness of those interactions is no surprise given the associativity and degeneracy of reentrant interactions to the brain.”

“The brain is embodied and the body is embedded.”

“Degeneracy is seen at many levels of biological organization, ranging from properties of cells up to language. It is an essential property of selectional systems, which would be likely to fail without it. In perception and memory, many different circuits of neuronal groups could and do give a similar output. Degeneracy in brain circuits leads almost inevitably association, a key property required for memory and learning. Different brain structures can carry out the same function or lead to the same output.”

“Consciousness is a process that consists of an enormous variety of so-called qualia: the discrimination entailed by the widely distributed and highly dynamic activity of the brain speaking to itself.”

“Early human thought proceeded by metaphor. The metaphorical capacity of linking disparate entities derives from the associative properties of a reentrant degenerative system.”

“Human brains operate fundamentally in terms of pattern recognition rather than logic. They are highly constructive in settling on given patterns and at the same time are constantly open to error.”

“In a strict physical sense, only the present exists. The past and the future are concepts available only to higher order consciousness.”

“The brain relies on a number of mechanisms to enhance the specificity of its responses. One involves experiential selection through changes in synaptic strength, constrained by the activity of value systems. The contrast between specificity and range clearly emerges during learning in the change from an initial exploratory response o later conditioned responses.”

“There are two main modes of thought: pattern recognition and logic. ”

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Emily Dickinson, Wider than the Sky, ca. 1862; in Gerald Edelman, Più grande del cielo, Translation by Simonetta Frediani, «Biblioteca Einaudi», Einaudi, Torino, 2004 [Bibl.: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, and Toronto, 1960, pp. 312-313]

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Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It’s very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Gerald Edelman

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The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

Gerald Edelman

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Gerald Edelman's theory of consciousness - summary and explanation. Neural Darwinism. The Theory of Neural group selection (TNGS)is based on the processes of re-entry and selection.