Working on an Artificial Mind
I think this article on trying to invent a working brain is very interesting: Click here to read the article . I enjoyed reading this article. However, my recent reading of "Signature in the Cell" by Stephen Meyer convinces me that Markram's theory (that consciousness is a product of self-organised complexity) is wishful thinking. As Meyer points out, there is a universe of difference between natural patterns and information-bearing (functionally specified) patterns. Markram would be well-served to familiarize himself with Meyer's arguments. Evolutionists have been trying for decades to explain, through naturalistic mechanisms, the origin of biological information and the brain's organization. And all such explanations fail. In my opinion they fail because they are based upon a wrong presumption (naturalism). Let's recognize the brain for what it is: the construct of a mind. The imposition of functionally relevant structure upon matter is the result of e...