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Scientists to simulate human brain inside a supercomputer(666?)
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| 10/13/2012
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Posted on 10/13/2012 1:19:43 PM PDT by Dallas59
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:19:52 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
"It is a step that will need both a huge increase in funding and access to computers so advanced that they have yet to be built." "If their current bid for 1 billion ($1.3 billion) of European Commission funding over the next 10 years is successful, Markram predicts that his computer neuroscientists are a decade away from producing a synthetic mind that could, in theory, talk and interact in the same way humans do."
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:23:54 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Dallas59
This was already done a long time ago. HAL 9000.
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:24:07 PM PDT
by
faucetman
( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: Dallas59
But will it help cure socialism, Marxism, and liberalism?
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:24:49 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:26:46 PM PDT
by
wolfpat
(Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
To: Dallas59
Don't know whether to name it Colossus or Joshua
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:27:30 PM PDT
by
Traveler59
( Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
To: unixfox
But will it help cure socialism, Marxism, and liberalism? No, it will merely perfect them.
Be afraid, be very, very afraid...
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:28:45 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1362 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:41:28 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Dallas59
Perhaps now we can get some decent AI in computer games.
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:45:06 PM PDT
by
soupbone1
To: Dallas59
Guffaw. I recently made a related argument in one of my philosophy courses for why AI is likely a pipe dream.
For this in particular, despite a great deal of knowledge that’s been accumulated under of the umbrella of cognitive neuroscience research, we still don’t know much about how a brain actually works (much less mind itselfthe two are not necessarily equivalent phenomena).
Sounds like a nice waste of money at this point to attempt building functional models of brains inside of computers. Even if we possessed sufficient knowledge about how brains work, it may be the case that brains work in a way that could never be simulated in model via computers no matter how powerful, given the mathematical bounds of computability. At least not without introducing certain simplifying assumptions, simplifications which themselves may destroy the practical value of such a simulation.
To: Dallas59
As long as they don’t simulate a liberal’s brain, then they should be OK. Otherwise, the computer will eventually will be looking to join a union or demand free stuff.
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:47:53 PM PDT
by
twoputt
To: Dallas59
Unless it has a quantum mechanical component to it, it will just be a big computer.
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:50:27 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
10/13/2012 1:55:35 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Dallas59
When will Skynet become self-aware???
To: Dallas59
Won’t happen. They don’t know how the mind operates, so they won’t be able to simulate it.
What they will do, is mimic one aspect of the mind’s functioning, and then say they have succeeded.
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posted on
10/13/2012 2:03:20 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Liberalism is a malfunction of the brain.)
To: Pride in the USA
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posted on
10/13/2012 2:05:03 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
To: I want the USA back
They can fiddle with the physics and mechanics of the mind all they want...similar to a satellite immitating.
But it will never be alive and will never have a soul.....the essence of man
To: Traveler59
Don't know whether to name it Colossus or Joshua
considering they're starting with rat brains, it's a no-brainer (sorry).......BEN
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posted on
10/13/2012 2:13:20 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Jab him with a harpoon.....)
To: faucetman
As I remember, that ended badly.
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posted on
10/13/2012 2:16:53 PM PDT
by
Twinkie
(Live and let live.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Unless it has a quantum mechanical component to it, it will just be a big computer. Classical computers can simulate quantum mechanics, just not that efficiently.
Here's a
link to a discussion on whether quantum mechanics is central to simulating the brain.
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