2021-02-16, 06:30 PM
(2021-02-16, 11:31 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: [ -> ]The problem of neural evolution...
A fundamental problem that has never been addressed by Darwinist evolutionary biologists and theorists: developing the DNA encoding changes for the intricate neural programs for new instinctual abilities required by physical evolution. A good example is bird flight, where somehow from random mutations millions of neurons had to be increased in number and reorganized into the extremely complex brain structures implementing the necessary new functional algorithms. The problem is actually greater and more complex than developing the new physical structures:
A few notes on the complexity of the neural systems required for the bird to fly that had to be evolved somehow from random mutations and other genetic changes (or more likely designed), based on the design of human-designed autopilots. A very difficult and problematic area that has been (I'm sure deliberately) left out of Darwinist evolutionary theorizing and "just so stories".
An autopilot is a device that must be capable of accomplishing all types of controlling functions including automatic take-off (in UAVs), flying toward the target destination, performing mission operations (e.g., surveillance in UAVs), and automatic landing. The autopilot has the responsibility for: (1) stabilizing the vehicle (two or three axis gyroscopic stabilization), (2) tracking and in some UAVs attack based on commands (in the bird from higher (conscious) neural structures), (3) following guidance (consciousness neural centers in the bird), and (4) navigating to destinations (in the bird combining terrain following, magnetic north sensing and at-night stellar navigation, also involving consciousness).
The two-axis autopilot system installed in most general aviation aircraft controls the pitch and roll of the aircraft. The autopilot can operate independently, controlling
heading and altitude, or it can be coupled to a navigation system and fly a programmed course or an approach with glideslope. The bird has to have a 3-axis system (including yaw or heading).
Autopilots can automate tasks, such as maintaining an altitude, climbing or descending to an assigned altitude, turning to and maintaining an assigned heading, intercepting a course, guiding the aircraft between waypoints that make up a programmed route. Of course the route plan in the bird has to be some sort of higher neural processing center associated with consciousness.
Many advanced avionics installations really include two different, but integrated, systems. One is the autopilot system, which is the set of servo actuators that actually do
the control movements and the control circuits to make the servo actuators move the correct amount for the selected task. The second is the flight director (FD) component. The
FD is the brain of the autopilot system.
The bird has to have both systems implemented in intricate neural structures combined with extensive modifications to the motor areas, in which the FD system includes the consciousness component.