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The Millennium Problems for Biology

164 points · 120 comments · artninja1988

  1. Q6T46nT668w6i3m · · focus · HN ↗
    It’s strange they are all engineering problems.
    1. ClaraForm · · focus · HN ↗
      Right? Where's the substrates of consciousness, or the actual solutions for protein/rna folding, or the requirements for evolution?
      1. anon48293 · · focus · HN ↗
        Substrates of consciousness? You mean the neural correlates of consciousness which we already have?
        1. ClaraForm · · focus · HN ↗
          As a neuroscientist: no. Not what I mean.
          1. anon48293 · · focus · HN ↗
            Then please enlighten me. What else do you want except what neural activity is necessary and sufficient for a conscious experience?
      2. randomImmigrant · · focus · HN ↗
        Substrates of consciousness… I think they don’t have it here because they can’t come up with an answer a bunch of AI models will find. Certainly a Millenium problem for biology if there ever was one.
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