Mechanicals will only get us so far.
I think one day we're going to have focused on the biological more than anything else.
Rather than prosthetics limp transplants.
Rather than computers in our heads genetically improved brains.
Upgrade the species not shove a bunch of metal bits into it that will always wear out and never merge well.
>we need an philosophical understanding first
I don't think that's true.
There are plenty of mechanical functions which the brain can be reduced to, and even simply improving those functions is enough to substantially improve human cognition.
For instance, the idea of studying these rat brains is to understand how the rats' brains navigate complex terrain, and then to implement that in a machine. I think it stands to reason that this would also mean you could alter how the rat traverses if you simply reverse the process.
Take a portion of the brain which is exceeded by modern computational abilities and work how the computer does it into the biological function.
That work would be harder than finding a theory which derives its behavior imo.
>what is drugs
>For instance, the idea of studying these rat brains is to understand how the rats' brains navigate complex terrain, and then to implement that in a machine.
and they will fail because navigating complex terrain isn't just something that one small part of the brain does but the whole rat. Furthermore, to navigate terrain you need to have a way of perceiving it and make sense of it. and we are back to the old problem of
>how do we recognise objects
>how do we map functions onto objects
every meme word that is used like ai, deep learning, machine learning etc is literally just some statistics and a more or less complex function that gives an output that again needs hand holding by humans.
and that's a naive and a wrong approach in the long term in my opinion.
You can't augment intelligence without an artificial intelligence to give you the "road map" to how the brain fully functions in the first place, so, checkmate, meatbag.
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