> > I never bought into this. Areoplanes aren't scanned birds. The motor car wasn't a scanned horse and cart. Submarines aren't scanned fish. Computers aren't > > scanned brains.
> This is such an important point. > > Even if we had the necessary brain scanning technology, the computational > structures of the brain cannot be efficiently emulated using conventional > computing substrates. The implementations reflect the structure and > capabilities of the fundamental materials they are built from. A scanned > brain AGI would be obscenely inefficient on silicon to the point where it > might not even have economic value (e.g. within the physics and engineering > limits of silicon fabrication the emulation could be much slower than an > actual human brain). > There is a reason no one does their computing by emulating a Turing machine > on top of conventional silicon. While the computing models are theoretically > equivalent, there is an extreme performance penalty for moving too far from > the physical model of computation, even if the model is amenable to an > optimized silicon implementation. GAH!! Why the hell do we have to keep talking about this!!!!!!!!! =(((((( Dude, Seriously, I mean dood, You are absolutely right on all fronts. Unfortunately, you are arguing against religeous fanatics. If brain emulation couldn't be done without magic pixie dust, they would drop everything and focus all attention on obtaining pixies and industralizing the process of harvesting their dust... =| No argument based on any form of common sense will have any impact at all on them. =( You see, it has been decided that the inevitable, ultimate, future of humanity is to exist as brain-scanned uploads. You don't get to have a say in the matter or any influence. This is not a 2-way conversation. Your fate has been decided. =| I hate uploaders. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
