Re: Cure for Alzheimer and autism by creationist technology


nando_ronteltap@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
neutralino@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, until you identify what part of the brain operates as a
"decisionmotor", your theory is standing in mid air. It's a bad
presupposition to be in...

By what is written about it, the central cortex is indicated to contain
a decisionmotor. It is the point where most new patterns start.

And just how certain are you that it's a new pattern, and not a
feedback loop. How would you be able to explain to a machine the
difference?

And again, this hypothesis should be seen in the context of making
*any* theory about decisions.

We have every reason to suppose that our minds are about making
decisions, by our own experience.

With no magic involved either.

So then we might make some theory that describes things like the
location of decision, the decisionspeed, how one point of decision
relates to another etc.

Given that the brain operates by distributed paralell processing, it's
unlikely that there would be any stationary point where a "decision" is
made.

And in such a context of making theory about decisions, a decisionmotor
is a credible and reasonable hypothesis.

Because you say it is? Show me the data...you might want to start
reading up on neural networks. There usually isn't any "point of
decision" between the input and output, just weighted values totaling
to be greater than or less than a threshold. (I suppose it would be
more accurate to say that every neuron represents a point of decision,
but I digress).

Again, why don't you put up any scientific theory about decisions at
all?

I've come the closest so far with mentioning the "non-trivial" nature
of the data sampling that would be required.

Isn't it very reasonable to suppose that knowledge about
decisionmaking, such as finding the location of them, and the speed of
how many decisions are made per second, could likely provide meaningful
knowledge for any disease that affects the mind?

You keep using that word "decision". I do not think it means what you
think it means.

There is no other reason then bigotry and prejudice why you all oppose
such a hypothesis as a decisionmotor,

It's more the complete lack of scientific evidence, really...well, that
and your previous posts regarding "decisions".

or of a pacemaker for free will,

I think that was more revulsion to the concept of having an electronic
device trying to second guess my "decisions", with the capacity to
override.

which hypothesis is emminently reasonable and warranted, if we would
only first recognize any decision at all as real.

Come back when you've got some solid evidence.

Unfortunately the only thing you all have done is to write rubbish, undermining the
whole class of knowledge about decisions, not just my
hypothesis about a decisionmotor.

Nobody's undermining the "whole class of knowledge about decisions".
It's quite a topic of research in neuroscience, artificial
intelligence, criminology, marketing, etc.... Nobody's even
undermining your take on "decisions", since it has no foundations to
begin with. Like a cartoon; don't look down, or you'll realize that
your position is unsupported and will fall.

regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu

Now, which single sentence of this post will you actually respond to
(while clipping the rest, of course)

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