Comment on: Great Grandfather of Neural Networks that power AI

Thanks for sharing this. I find it really interesting.

These are my takeaways from this clip of Dr. Warren McCullough, inventor of Neural Nets, neurologist, engineer, and mathematician, at the world-famous MIT lab. 

He said:

“I got seduced by mathematics because, if you are familiar with theology at all, you'll realize that the ideas in the mind of God are mathematics and logic, and that's why I came in the game in the first place”. This interestingly instead of becoming a seminarian.

This is consistent with InSelf Yoga because it additionally validates science, which is logic through mathematical principles.

Then critically, Dr. Mcullough states that he only had one question his entire scientific career:

“What is a number that a man may know it, and that a man may know that he knows a number”

He acknowledges that he doesn’t know about the second part. That also has to do with inSelf Yoga, at least the part of it that would be known as metacognition, thinking about the process of one’s own thinking itself, a capacity to develop as one advances in karma yoga.

He ends up adopting the concept of anastomotic in Greek, to define his thinking, and that would refer to the processing of information by the life force. It is the process of the funneling of information or data, but not yet the analysis by the intellect. 

The only complexity for an inSelf Yogi here is accounting for the data from memories, because they bypass the lifeforce since they are recalled and not present at the initial sensorial intake to create so-called instincts/impulses. 

However, from his standpoint, they can be factored into his broader approach that he connects to anastomotic (from Google: a cross-connection between adjacent channels, tubes, fibers, or other parts of a network.)

The other important point is that he says that the next monumental discovery in humanity will be a thing man creates. And, he goes on to say that such a created machine could feel about his grandkids the same way he does, precisely because if he can, he concludes that there is a mechanism that would allow another thing to be able to do it, in the future. In essence, he is saying that he could be replaced by a machine, one that he thinks could survive humanity, the same way we dit dinosaurs.

Here is my take on that part: 

We may say that human is a machine, but will machine become human enough to have consciousness, maybe so! 

Or why not?