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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin 

Can a computer direct its own learning; can computers teach each other?

 

 

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Editor's note:

Dr. Frederico Faggin is one of the heavyweight scientist-inventors of the 20th century. In 1971 he developed the first silicon chip, the microprocessor at the heart of all electronic devices today. He also produced the new touch-sceen technology.

Currently, he is writing, lecturing, and advocating what he feels to be an even more fundamental revolution in science - that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all reality.

 

 

Can a computer direct its own learning; can computers teach each other?

No computer can rise higher than its own programming or “learning.” This is so, even if computers “teach each other.” Ultimately, it's the progammers' intelligence that we're looking at.

Irreducible, pg. 153:

When a computer learns using “unsupervised” learning, and the programmer insists that the computer “did it all by itself,” this is a great exaggeration, because the architecture of the program that “learns by itself” was conceived by humans.

If a computer or a robot were left to operate completely on its own, the results would be very different and probably catastrophic.

 

 

Editor's last word:

Also see youtube interviews of Dr. Faggin, for example, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Q_W6H_nZk 

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5REKKkKZpY

wherein Dr. Faggin makes comments, such as, "The structure of matter is isomorphic [“equal form”] to the cognitive structure of consciousness, which can reflect itself [in matter]"; our "bodies reflect the accumulated learning of consciousness; matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing."