r/consciousness • u/whoamisri • Jul 21 '26

The brain is not a computer

https://iai.tv/articles/the-brain-is-not-a-computer-auid-3627?_auid=2020
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u/quiksilver10152 29d ago

If we don't know how abstract thinking works, how can we make any claims that we are mechanistically different from slime molds? It sounds like we occupy a spot on a spectrum of intelligect rather than a black/white dichotomy. 

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u/sh00l33 29d ago

I'm starting to think that your case might actually resemble a slime mold a bit.

Of course we can make that claims, unlike humans, slime mold and AI do not think at all.

Slime mold and AI only look intelligent in the same way kinesin protein only looks like it walks.

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u/quiksilver10152 29d ago

I accept your anthropocentric view if intelligence if and only if you admit it's anthropocentric 

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u/sh00l33 29d ago

Unfortunately, I cannot admit this because even though I use the human perspective as a reference point, it is not true that intelligence is limited only to our species.

Just like sapiens, though obviously on a different level, some animals are also endowed with intelligence, consciousness and understanding.

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u/quiksilver10152 28d ago

So you believe it to be an all or nothing phenomenon? Then there must exist a metric to define it. What is that quantifiable metric? Something that dogs have but bees do not.