On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:58:51PM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Hmmm... IMO, there is a damn big leap between bugs and humans!!!
Sure, but the leap between nothing at all and bugs is far greater still. As another example, the step from a mouse to a man in terms of added functionality at the genome and morphome level is almost insignificant (but the results are for that so much more astonishing). It's mostly the scale, and the supercell architecture (also more neuron types and ion channels, but not that much more). And we can tell where the diffs are through what the genetic diffs are, and how the gene activity pattern change over time, and which shape changes they produce. And which functionality they change, by in vitro and in vivo recording. So I think it makes sense to put a roadmap from Drosophila to Mus and then primates. > I'm not sure why you think that the step from one to the next is trivial? > > Clearly from here to a simulated bug is a big leap, but the leap from a sim > bug to a sim human is ALSO really big, no? Yes, but we have a map: input from wet and computational neuroscience. Working blueprints are crawling, flying and walking everywhere. I realize it's the wrong approach to talk about on this list. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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