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While the logic to create an individual neuron, or small systems of neurons is easily understood, their behaviour en mass behaves in ways which shows an additional level of complexity in the classification of neutrons which was NOT programmed by the creators of such systems. In fact, a new class of investigator are examining these systems in the same way that other scientists examine the human brain, in order to ascertain how we create consciousness. We are already at the point where, excepting the most trivial solutions, we don't really understand how Artificial Intelligences such as deep mind, arrive at the conclusions they do. My view is that at this point of time, there is no possible way to either predict the outcomes of this, potentially the last great generation of Information technology, or to forestall the eventual outcomes.

Thus, they tend to concentrate on the mechanisms of mutation and of natural selection, effective in microevolution-the change from variety to variety and species to species-and to extrapolate these findings to macroevolution, to the origin of the great groups of living things.There is a lot of rather shallow discussion about the benefits, and dangers of AI and Machine Learning, which by the way are not the same thing. With genetics illuminating the mechanism of heredity (and hence the very conditions of evolution) and biochemistry elucidating the workings of the cell nucleus, some biologists are confirmed in their belief that scientific treatment admits only of analysis into parts and not into new kinds of wholes. Even so, the theory has not been accepted universally by biologists. Morgan condemned the 20th-century French intuitionist Henri Bergson’s creative evolution as speculative, while proclaiming emergent evolution as a scientific theory. Like Lewes, he treated the distinction as inductive and empirical, not as metempirical or metaphysical- i.e., not beyond the observable realm. Lloyd Morgan, one of the founders of animal psychology, emphasized the antipode of the principle: nothing should be called an emergent unless it can be shown not to be a resultant. These are thus cases of emergence.Įarly in the 20th century, the British zoologist C. Each of these new modes of life, though grounded in the physicochemical and biochemical conditions of the previous and simpler stage, is intelligible only in terms of its own ordering principle. The evolutionary account of life is a continuous history marked by stages at which fundamentally new forms have appeared: (1) the origin of life (2) the origin of nucleus-bearing protozoa (3) the origin of sexually reproducing forms, with an individual destiny lacking in cells that reproduce by fission (4) the rise of sentient animals, with nervous systems and protobrains and (5) the appearance of cogitative animals, namely humans. George Henry Lewes, the 19th-century English philosopher of science, distinguished between resultants and emergents-phenomena that are predictable from their constituent parts and those that are not ( e.g., a physical mixture of sand and talcum powder as contrasted with a chemical compound such as salt, which looks nothing like sodium or chlorine).

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