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I would feel less skeptical about the prospects for simulating the human brain if I had heard that someone had succeeded in simulating an infinitely simpler nervous system, say that of a spider, for instance, and obtained spider-like behavior from it.
I would feel less skeptical about the prospects for simulating the human brain if I had heard that someone had succeeded in simulating an infinitely simpler nervous system, say that of a spider, for instance, and obtained spider-like behavior from it.
I get it, its interesting to understand our intelligence. But model a human brain? Why? Its pretty cheap to make them (and fun). They don't work all that well in the end - they're all bound up with food and sex and fear. Why not be even a little ambitious, and make something an order smarter? The human brain size is arbitrarily bound by the female pelvis size. Presumable the artifical one won't have that limit. And s…
If free will exists, how will it enter into the simulation (or emulation)?
Why not to try from the top?
I would feel less skeptical about the prospects for simulating the human brain if I had heard that someone had succeeded in simulating an infinitely simpler nervous system, say that of a spider, for instance, and obtained spider-like behavior from it.
Precisely. Can we even see a complete simulation of E. Coli? It's disheartening how much of science news and research today is all about hype, smoke, and mirrors. It's becoming more about catching fleeting fame and money grabbing than actually producing interesting advances and results. Exactly how would they scale this when you have something like a hundred trillion synapses between the neurons in a brain? Mind you…
> Precisely. Can we even see a complete simulation of
> E. Coli?
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I wish this meme would die. It really just taints everything we are trying to do with Strong AI.
Do you have any proof that Strong AI would be safe for humans?