Philosophy Wire: Brain as a model… Wrong mirrors… Dark ocean…

Two New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain. [1] Misled humans. Trailing their own footsteps. Lost in their own forest. All our life based on formulating theories. Trying to represent something with something else. Looking at our faces on the lake. But it is the dark ocean we should be heading to. The only valid representation is the one which hurts a bit. No, the mirror in front of you is not important. You are. All the sorrow of life. All the happiness of being. Depicted in those lonely eyes. A broken mirror. Blood dripping from a hand. A gaze that would blind you. Even without any mirror…

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