On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> Perhaps you could "recast" your argument to address doing at least enough > human brain research ala reverse engineering to extract the general > principles, and developing the capability to "drill down" into any details > for which a general understanding proves inadequate? > Put it this way, if I had funds to allocate, I would seriously look into throwing a few million your way, solely and precisely because reverse engineering the brain is necessary for uploading, and there's a chance your ideas might make a significant contribution there. As it is, pardon me if this was mentioned before, but have you checked out the Blue Brain project? They claim to have reverse engineered neurons well enough to have been able to build digital models that reproduce the behavior of the originals. > It seems pretty clear to me that it would be IMPOSSIBLE to ever make a > "copy" (with all the unavoidable problems that likely copying equipment > would have), without an understanding to guide the debugging process. > Yes. Our experience with software emulation of 8-bit game consoles suffices by itself to make that clear. > Since the AGI people here only want the understanding, and copying (and > therefore uploading) also requires an understanding, getting an > understanding would seem to me to be the obvious next step, ESPECIALLY if > (as I suspect) a modest amount of developmental work could produce tools to > greatly expedite getting that understanding. > If so, I don't think anyone on this list is in a position to do anything about that at the moment. But I'm starting to retread an argument I made last time we had this conversation, so I'll rest my case on that one. To avoid lost arguments (apparently like Russell's above), I think it still > OK to reference past arguments, especially if a hyperlink is provided for a > quick re-read. I often click on the hyperlinks that people provide. > I think that's a good idea: if you find yourself repeating the same argument, post your best version of it, then in the future you can provide links to that version. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
