Monday, 26 January 2015

Jump across time and Newtonian God

Recently i had an assignment where we had to write about the jump across time and newtonian god. Here jump acrosss time means to think of past or future, and not a time travel kind of thing ( Something on time travel later someday).
So this is what i wrote...

"Jump across time is something we all do and each of the living organism does that day and night.
First we need to think what actually is a time jump. Time jump is something which allows us to think of a moment except for the present moment. What i believe is that the state of our mind during a time jump is very different of the usual thinking. All the neurons in our brain are acting as if they were present in that moment, thats why we get happy when we think of a nice moment (and also the harmones related to happiness are released) , we also get angry when we think of a moment when somebody did wrong to us (and then also harmones related to anger are released in our body) simply by thinking of that moment. So this proves that every neuron acts like it is acting in that particular moment during the time jump. Basically our mind has shifted from one state to all together a different state , the state which was present in that moment(in case of past) or the state which we expect to be there (in case of future).
If we say that our brain is nothing but a turing machine with somewhere around 100 billion neurons, each of which represent a variable. Each neuron can take only two values that is 1 or 0 (on or off).
So now we have a turing machine with 100 billion machine state variables. So the possible number for the number of states our brain can take is 2^100 billion. We can say that time jump is a program on that turing machine which takes that machine from one state to the another, as any other program does.
Having explain the model of the brain , now the question arises , what is the program which leads to time jump, who writes this program of time jump, and under which conditions is it run. I guess this is where the concept of god comes into play, as newton denied the existence of god in every being as the soul, so we know for sure that god does not load this program for sure. So we can conclude that we have the power to load that program. But who wrote that program, here newtonian god allows us to give this credits to him. The newtonian god has already written the program for time jump, he has also compiled it , what we need to do is to run it and give the input that which moment we want to jump to, and there we are , the state of mind changes to that paticular moment.
If we see like this , then yes the concept of newtonian god allows for time jump."

Saturday, 17 January 2015

A Machine Smarter than Humans...

Recently i saw the movie "The Imitation Game", and it really inspired me to read a bit more about Alan M. Turing and artificial intelligence. While reading all that suddenly a question popped out into my mind, can a machine be ever be smarter than humans?.
And as usual my first action was to google it. And What i mainly found was that people comparing the speeds of our minds and that of the best computer with us. They say that  the human brain has a processing capacity of 0.1 quadrillion instructions per second whereas the capacity for the best super computer is 1.026 quadrillion instructions.
Is the really the best way to get the answer to that question. Is being faster a proof of being smarter. I dont think so. The person finishing the exam before you may not obviously smarter than you. Rather the question should be that can a machine think whatever we can do??can a computer attain all those states that a human brain can???.
I say if it can than yes machines can be smarter than humans. Because according to Alan Turing , every possible problem for which a solution exist can be represented as a sequence of state, and if it can be solved by a human that means those states can be attained by the human brain , and if the computer has more states than the human brain that computer can also attain all those possible states, and hence computer can be smarte than us. It can basically do whatever our brain can do.
I really could not find the maximum number of states attainable by the best super computer in this world, but i could find the number of states attainable by our brain and that was 10^700000000.

The brain has a processing capacity of 0.1 quadrillion instructions per second. The fastest super computer in the world, called Roadrunner is capable of handling 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second - See more at: http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/brain-facts.shtml#sthash.z0cPUXvj.dpuf
Is a computer smarter than a human brain?
The brain has a processing capacity of 0.1 quadrillion instructions per second. The fastest super computer in the world, called Roadrunner is capable of handling 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. However the computational power of the human brain is difficult to ascertain, as the human brain is not easily paralleled to the binary number processing of computers. For while the human brain is calculating a math problem, it is subconsciously processing data from millions of nerve cells that handle the visual input of the paper and surrounding area, the aural input from both ears, and the sensory input of millions of cells throughout the body. The brain is also regulating the heartbeat, monitoring oxygen levels, hunger and thirst requirements, breathing patterns and hundreds of other essential factors throughout the body. It is simultaneously comparing data from the eyes and the sensory cells in the arms and hands to keep track of the position of the pen and paper as the calculation is being performed.
- See more at: http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/brain-facts.shtml#sthash.z0cPUXvj.dpu
Is a computer smarter than a human brain?
The brain has a processing capacity of 0.1 quadrillion instructions per second. The fastest super computer in the world, called Roadrunner is capable of handling 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. However the computational power of the human brain is difficult to ascertain, as the human brain is not easily paralleled to the binary number processing of computers. For while the human brain is calculating a math problem, it is subconsciously processing data from millions of nerve cells that handle the visual input of the paper and surrounding area, the aural input from both ears, and the sensory input of millions of cells throughout the body. The brain is also regulating the heartbeat, monitoring oxygen levels, hunger and thirst requirements, breathing patterns and hundreds of other essential factors throughout the body. It is simultaneously comparing data from the eyes and the sensory cells in the arms and hands to keep track of the position of the pen and paper as the calculation is being performed.
- See more at: http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/brain-facts.shtml#sthash.z0cPUXvj.dpuf
Is a computer smarter than a human brain?
The brain has a processing capacity of 0.1 quadrillion instructions per second. The fastest super computer in the world, called Roadrunner is capable of handling 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. However the computational power of the human brain is difficult to ascertain, as the human brain is not easily paralleled to the binary number processing of computers. For while the human brain is calculating a math problem, it is subconsciously processing data from millions of nerve cells that handle the visual input of the paper and surrounding area, the aural input from both ears, and the sensory input of millions of cells throughout the body. The brain is also regulating the heartbeat, monitoring oxygen levels, hunger and thirst requirements, breathing patterns and hundreds of other essential factors throughout the body. It is simultaneously comparing data from the eyes and the sensory cells in the arms and hands to keep track of the position of the pen and paper as the calculation is being performed.
- See more at: http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/brain-facts.shtml#sthash.z0cPUXvj.dpuf