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Reddit mentions of The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man
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I highly recommend you read The Quantum Brain (http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Brain-Freedom-Generation/dp/0471441538). It's been many years since I've read it but I'll recall what I can from memory :)
The brain stores memories as patterns of connectivity. Your brain receives input from all the senses, and those stimuli form a static pattern of connectivity between all the neurons that respond. The book uses the analogy of a box of bar magnets mounted frictionlessly to perfectly-balanced axles forming rows obeying the laws of electromagnetism. Each magnet represents a neuron, and the magenetic interplay between them represents inter-neural connections. As a magnetic stimuli (sensory input) is introduced to the edge of the box, the magnets shift as a result and lock into one of several possible patterns based on laws of energy conservation. These patterns are what we perceive as memories. When you are introduced to similar stimuli again, your brain dances around locking into that pattern again, but it could temporarily lock into related but incorrect patterns in its search. I think these false low energy states are considered to be "tip of the tongue" hazy memory moments.
But I'm probably really messing it up. Please read the book. It's awesome. I'm going to go read it again now.
I mean artificial neural nets. If you want a great discussion of them, I suggest The Quantum Brain.
If a brain -- and so awareness as you seem to equivocate here -- can arise by an accidental process that just happens to involve insemination and pregnancy, why can't a concerted effort that achieves the birth of a true AI result? To say that it couldn't would be like saying that artificial selection (aka good ol' fashioned breeding, be it pets such as dogs or crops such as corn) is unlikely to be successful even though evolution happens naturally. Seems like that would be a strange hypothesis, doesn't it?
https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Brain-Search-Freedom-Generation/dp/0471441538