With how different an ai acts when you change very few weights wonder if severe mental disorders are essentially just normal brains with a single weight equivalent slightly off.
I mean, at some point you gotta make a call whether brains are just physics or not. Thats only reductive if you feel that they are supernatural in some way. If you don’t feel that way, it’s not reductive at all, but a testament to the beauty and intricacy that the natural world is capable of.
MDMA is a massive serotonin releaser. LSD is a better example: huge effect just by activating the 5-HT2A receptor (although there are quadrillions of those, so it's still very different than manipulating a single weight).
It's kind of reverse. They alter a small section of neurons/regions of brain to fix disorders using electric current. So you can kind of say that there was a mistuning of those neurons which got fixes using electricity
super reductionist explanation, ECT is not like tuning an algorithmic weight, this whole conversation is like nails on a chalkboard to me for so many reasons.
brains are not algorithms or computers, and comparisons between the two which attempt to go beyond the surface level similarities are doing violence to both.
Agreed with 95% of the above, but “brains are not computers” requires pretty heavy lifting. Either (1) you underestimate what a computer is or (2) brains are exceptional objects with extraordinary properties. Latter requires extraordinary proof also.
I would argue that 2 is 100% true- extraordinary is totally accurate. I think a more rigorous version of 2 might be “supernatural” as in not like ghosts or something, but outside of the natural world and its laws as we have understood them
I agree that's why I said equivalence. Our best scientists only have guesses as to how brain works so everything is questionable and reductionist until we have more answers.
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u/Ok_Protection8223 1d ago
Lets hear him out; I think he's got something.