Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 111 of 171
How do brains achieve useful hallucinations?
how do our brains achieve useful hallucinations? This is one of the outstanding questions for neuroscience in the coming decades. Changing the underlying assumption that the role of human intelligence is to translate information about the world into veridical representations of the world—changing this into a working assumption that human consciousness does not arise out of sensory perception but rather exists independently of it—would help to open new avenues of research in machine consciousness. It would require a shift in perspective from the current approach to creating artificial intelligence, an approach that currently rests on the idea that machine intelligence can be achieved by collecting ever-larger amounts of