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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Edward GreenEdward Green Date: Aug 20, 2008 00:18
On Aug 16, 6:17Â am, Jan Panteltje yahoo.com> wrote:> On a sunny day (Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:18:21 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Edward
> Green netzero.com> wrote in
> <5a4efb7a-a2c7-43ee-99f8-6ad7d1b09...@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>:>
>>>Joking aside, as I think they said in the article, rat vs. human
>>intelligence seems to be a matter of quantity, not quality. Â It's
>>plausible to think a rat has some experience which vaguely resembles
>>ours, as does a dog: free of language, abstract thought, but with some
>>emotions. Â And what is the experience of a rat brain artificially
>>grown in a box? Â We don't know, and this could be animal cruelty.
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>>I'm not sure I actually believe the article. How is the lump of tissue
>>kept alive? Â Is it simply suffused with nutrient?
That makes the latest release "first robot controlled by living brain
tissue" a bit gimmicky. Obviously if you can control an electronic
simulator with X you can also control something with moving parts with
X.
> Yes it is in some nutricient, and it seems they add chemicals as
> 'reward' or 'punishment' to correct action (feedback in the neural net).
> Hope I got that one right.
I had wondered about the reward or punishment thing: whole organisms
will work for food. What takes the place of "food" for a blob of
neurons. Narcotics?
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