Yes, but if any kid can buy a system with Avogadro number of switches, and large corporations 10^6 of that, no reason why we can't breed AI starting from an educated guess (a spiking network of automata controlling virtual co-evolving critters). That future is some 30-50 years remote.
I think you're a few orders of magnitude off, but I made basically the same point here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01509.html
But we're getting off track, my point at the start of this was that simple theories allow efficient communication, and therefore are essential for rapid progress in an effort like this, in which people are trying to design or understand something that is holistic. i.e. something that cannot be decomposed into mathematically discrete chunks the way that the physical sciences often can.
AI and cognitive science both fall squarely into that category.
-Brad
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