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Abstract
A New Marriage of Brain and Computer - Why 'The Singularity' Is Bogus
September 21, 2:00 pm
Google Campus
Paramaraibo Tech Talk Room
Building 42, 2nd Floor
1600 Ampitheatre Parkway, Mountan View, California
Abstract:
Brain and computer were wed mid-twentieth century by the McCulloch-Pitts model
neuron and Hodgkin-Huxley equations for digital firing in biological neurons.
Since then, brain neurons, synapses, firings and networks have been
considered analogous to electronic switches, states and circuits in classical
computers. But despite extraordinary advances and bold predictions,
consciousness seems ever more elusive. On this, and other divisive issues like
EEG gamma synchrony, deviations from Hodgkin-Huxley, gap junctions, dendritic
webs/hyper-neurons, anesthesia, quantum computers and clear demonstration of
functional quantum coherence in warm protein assemblies, brain and computer
have drifted apart. Increasing evidence suggests that the brain-computer marriage
could be spiced up, and consciousness accounted for, by exotic yet testable new
approaches such as quantum computation in microtubules (Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR
theory) in laterally connected input/integration layers (gap junction dendritic
web/hyper-neurons) of neuronal networks.