Question for anyone Interested in AI!

Each action has a reaction. The mind doesnt do something without a conductor! Something to make it do that.
Back to my orchestra comparison.

I.e I responded to this post because i read yours and wanted to add my bit!

If our brains are like orchestras, then I doubt it would have a conducter, would be millions of times larger than an orchestra with many more sections.

The problem is with the orchestral comparrison is that orchestras are externally organised organisms and brains are self organising. The brain is just a medium for incomming information to organise itself into belief patterns.

If brains are like orchestras then what is the analogy of the conducter and the composer?

The problem of AI is that it lives in an errorless world. In reallife, everything affects everything. Lets say, on ground a small stone isn't really a big thing, but it may also be touched, throwed, stepped on, change it's place to numberless locations etc. etc. And more about brains, hormones affect as well on what you think and do.

I saw a program last year in tv, which told that brains work in the way of largest disturbance. One eliminates other things quite well and so you can think only one thing at a moment, otherwise there would be many sessions and many mes. Unlike computers, brains are real multitasking workers. And there are dozens of these things all reporting what they are doing. Most are unseeable and of the major "tasks" competite of the attention. You concentrate on that thing you think at the moment.

As for reallife example, I do programming. Then I hear a sound. What I do? My brains analyse the sound and if it's a certain thing, like a notification of an e-mail, I stop programming (probably even without noticing it really) and check the mail. And in case it's a doorbell, I must go and open the door. And this is told harshly, there are many things that happen all the time, but they are so small we don't usually note them, just such as moving your fingers and walking, feeling touch and so on.

What I try to say: every cell in brain is a realtime multitasking device, every cell is a full computer, doing one thing at a time, like a normal computer.

I am sooooo wise...I just thought this whole thing out...Stupid me, I rarely recycle what I (or someone else) have written before. Oh well :rolleyes:

Simon it wasnt meant as a complex analogy but as a basic analogy!

It is better than the old: the brain like a big phone system (because it has a lot of connections) or is it one big computer with ON or OFF states (like the zeros and ones in a computer)
Maybe losts of orchestras!

In an orchestra, you have different musical sections. There is a percussion section, a string section, a woodwind section, and so on. Each has its own job to do and must work closely with the other sections. When playing music, each section waits for the conductor. The conductor raises a baton and all the members of the orchestra begin playing at the same time playing on the same note. If the drum section hasn't been practicing, they don't play as well as the rest of the orchestra. The overall sound of the music seems "off" or plays poorly at certain times.

The composer is eyes, ears anything that can bring in information like the composer does for an orchestra! He/She gives the orchestra some information and they turn it into music.

Gots to go to footie.

OK, I see there are worthwhile analogies between the mind and an orchestra.

My main problem with the analogy is precisely this: An orchestra is, literally, orchestrated by the conducter (who is the real brain). The human mind, however, is self orchestrated...More like a (modern) Jazz band!

As for what I said, the self orchastrated thing comes in there as the strongest happening at the moment. I'm not sure how brains do it though...see what's bigger than other. Maybe it is so that which call takes the most notice from others and gets it's message wider that way...Oh dang it, I lost my line of thought in this point. Cursed headache... :(