A very interesting article. Termark points out that any information stored in a special network known as a Hopfield neural net automatically has this error-correcting facility. However, he calculates that a Hopfield net about the size of the human brain with 10^11 neurons, can only store 37 bits of integrated information. This leaves us with an integration paradox: why does the information content of our conscious experience appear to be vastly larger than 37 bits? asks Tegmark. That’s a question that many scientists might end up pondering in detail. For Tegmark, this paradox suggests that his mathematical formulation of consciousness is missing a vital ingredient. This strongly implies that the integration principle must be supplemented by at least one additional principle, he says. What are your thoughts? What are the implications of these scientific findings on the nature and/or existence of the human soul?
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:08:26 +0000
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