Just for Matt (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, January 23, 2010, 20:36 (5417 days ago) @ David Turell

Back to thinking about a computer simulation of the brain. An excellent essay which thinks we cannot do it:
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> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527427.100-you-wont-find-consciousness-in-the-b... losing faith in the forum's ability to send me emails--I don't remember being alerted to this article. -It's a very interesting counterpoint, but one that as we attempt to build brains in vats can be leveled against occam's razor. With computers we'll be able to follow the complete flow and lifecycle of information so that we'll be able to know what individual nodes are "thinking about." -While the skeptical view would still be "do we know if THIS is what goes on in the human brain?" Assuming a successful build, it'll have to be subjected to various tests of human intelligence and be able to demonstrate (in my opinion) that it can vary in performance to a similar extent to humans. It'll have to be able to reason from the inexact.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"