Science is a crowning glory of the human spirit and its applications remain our best hope for social progress. But there are limitations to current science and perhaps to any science. The general mind-body problem is known to be intractable and currently mysterious. This is one of many deep problems that are universally agreed to be beyond the current purview of Science, including quantum phenomena, etc. But all of these famous unsolved problems are either remote from everyday experience (entanglement, dark matter) or are hard to even define sharply (phenomenology, consciousness, etc.). In this note, we will consider some obvious computational problems in vision that arise every time that we open our eyes and yet are demonstrably incompatible with current theories of neural computation. The focus will be on two related phenomena, known as the neural binding problem and the illusion of a detailed stable visual world.
翻译:科学是人类精神的伟大荣耀,其应用仍是人类社会进步的最佳希望。但当前科学乃至任何科学都存在局限性。一般的心身问题众所周知是棘手的,目前也是神秘的。这是人们普遍认为超出当前科学范围的许多深层次问题之一,包括量子现象等等。 但所有这些著名的未解决的问题要么远离日常经验(纠结、暗物质),要么很难加以明确定义(人文学、意识等 ) 。 在本说明中,我们将考虑每当我们睁开眼睛,但显然与当前的神经计算理论不相容时,就会出现的一些明显的计算问题。 重点将放在两个相关的现象上,即神经结合问题和详细稳定的视觉世界的幻觉。