If it exists it might indeed be simulated someday, but that is a lot different than making the claim that it can be simulated in the near future with computers. You acknowledge that there are still many mysteries in areas which seem like they should be possible to simulate using contemporary computers but then you seem to deny that there are mysteries which have no substantial underpinning in contemporary scientific thought. That is a radical point of view if that is what you are saying. Jim Bromer
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:30 AM MP via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > My position: > > Who we are is nothing more than a few billion neurons in a calcium enclosure > and an annoyingly inefficient vehicle. > > So our intelligence, perceptions, actions, memories, and so on and so forth > do indeed exist. I don’t see any reason why we can’t recreate that in silicon. > > Why we haven’t so far is another issue. To know human intelligence is to know > ourselves, and we have so far BARELY been able to decipher the brain of a > honeybee. What’s stopping us is from fully understanding the human brain and > the relationship between neurological structures and intelligent action. > > I believe it’s possible, however. If it exists, it can be simulated. > > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Jim Bromer via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I already regret asking these questions, but do you truly (really - > honestly) believe that: > Conscious Experience or soul or Qualia or the experience of being (or > whatever you want to call it) does not actually exist (or occur)? > and/or > This experience (whatever you want to call it) can therefore occur in > a computer program? > Jim Bromer > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2e5182d7ce6527f7-M43dc3a5872172d71281d2645 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
