How simple are people?

TayaLeaf

A hand-held calculator (calculating machine) runs at 10 to 100 bits per second. Our consciousness process data at 50 bits per second (Chat GPT). Human unconsciousness equals animal consciousness. We are animals with a small electronic chip calculator in the brain.

Peatful

Pathetic soulless “ideology”.

We have spirit.
Made in the image of God, man is both a corporeal and spiritual being.

We have heart.

ThinPicking

@Peatful said in How simple are people?:

Pathetic soulless “ideology”.

Tis.

We have spirit.

We do.

We have heart.

We do.

The thread is exhibit A.

@TayaLeaf said in William blake's work:

Has anyone found a simple explanation of William Blake's paintings. i only understand the painting with Newton.

Exhibit B.

@TayaLeaf said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

If a person has malfunctioning *liver, he would not tolerate fructose or sucrose, and if the person has bad digestion, he would not tolerate starches or lactose.

Exhibit C.

eduardo-crispino

@TayaLeaf least materialist MIT graduate

lobotomize-me

@Peatful with all my respect and admiration to you peat and his work where is the soul stored, where can one find it.

"One has to have a open mind but not open enough for birds to shit in it"

ThinPicking

Can you imagine it being possible to answer that with coded materialism in some time. Can you imagine there's science left undone.

Surely. You're sat at or holding a terminal to look at in plane liquid crystals under applied electrical field.

If the word "soul" makes you uncomfortable you can call it something else. Someone else already did on this forum.

Peatful

@lobotomize-me

Where can one find it?

That is for you to find out;
Like your life depends on it.

jamezb46

The Human brain can process an exaflop of floating point calculations per second with a power consumption of 20 watts. How many floating point calculations can your hand held calculator perform?

The most powerful supercomputers in the world can just barely perform an exaflop of floating point calculations per second, while requiring 21 megawatts of power.

So, no. Our brain is by far the most incredible object in the known universe as regards information processing. There is nothing that even comes close.

T-3

@jamezb46 I agree with your high regard for the human mind and that it far exceeds algorithmic Boolean logic (for many important matters of judgment) and processing power per energy input. Might you be willing to post citations for the exaflop comparisons you gave?

I would only note that these exaflop comparisons are merely a point of departure. Many further comparisons could be made suggesting domains in which the human mind excels.

Kvirion

Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize winner) claims that the human brain uses quantum effects to work effectively.

BTW https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

Scientists who explain the brain/mind very well are, for example, Inês Hipólito and Andy Clark.