Ask A Genius 396 – Simplest Forms Most Beautiful
September 28, 2018
[Beginning of recorded material]
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What will be the basis for replication of consciousness, the non-mystical deeply interconnected information processing of the brain?
Rick Rosner: Humans will be able to replicate or come up with things that think; it will be in a way that is compelling and similar or ways that are quite similar to the ways humans think.
Because we will have directed development and exploration. The brain via evolution has most likely exploited all the simplest ways to process information and to share with itself/modules of the brain to share information. You get this conscious arena where these specialist systems are sharing information.
All the sharing is a product of opportunistic development and undirected development. As such, it is not going to be magical. It is going to be sub-optimal and, thus, approachable technologically.
There is nothing about the brain that is so insurmountably complex that technology can’t replicate it, for the most part. With any failed replication of thinking in the near future, it will probably not be that big of a deal.
We will probably be able to come up with brain-like information-processing systems that are as good as human brains within 60 years.
[End of recorded material]
Authors[1]
Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
Footnotes
[1] Four format points for the session article:
- Bold text following “Scott Douglas Jacobsen:” or “Jacobsen:” is Scott Douglas Jacobsen & non-bold text following “Rick Rosner:” or “Rosner:” is Rick Rosner.
- Session article conducted, transcribed, edited, formatted, and published by Scott.
- Footnotes & in-text citations in the interview & references after the interview.
- This session article has been edited for clarity and readability.
For further information on the formatting guidelines incorporated into this document, please see the following documents:
- American Psychological Association. (2010). Citation Guide: APA. Retrieved from http://www.lib.sfu.ca/system/files/28281/APA6CitationGuideSFUv3.pdf.
- Humble, A. (n.d.). Guide to Transcribing. Retrieved from http://www.msvu.ca/site/media/msvu/Transcription%20Guide.pdf.
License and Copyright
License
In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal by Scott Douglas Jacobsen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at www.in-sightjournal.com and www.rickrosner.org.
Copyright
© Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Rick Rosner, and In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 2012-2018. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Rick Rosner, and In-Sight Publishing and In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Rick Rosner 