Bryan Bishop wrote:
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 11:55, Richard Loosemore wrote:
I was really thinking of the data collection problem: we cannot take
one brain and get full information about all those things, down to a
sufficient level of detail. I do not see such a technology even over
the horizon (short of full-blow nanotechnology) that can deliver
that. We can get different information from different individual
brains (all of them dead), but combining that would not necessarily
be meaningful: all brains are different.
Re: all brains are different. What about the possibilities of cloning
mice and then proceeding to raise them in Skinner boxes with the exact
same environmental conditions, the same stimulation routines, etc. ?
Ideally this will give us a "baseline" mouse that is not only
genetically similar, but also behaviorally similar to some degree. This
would undoubtedly be helpful in this quest.
Well, now you have suggested this I am sure some neuroscientist will do
it ;-).
But you have to understand that I am a cognitive scientist, with a huge
agenda that involves making good use of what I see as the uneplxored
fertile ground between cognitive science and AI .... and I think that I
will be able to build an AGI using this approach *long* before the
neuroscientists even get one mouse-brain scan at the neuron level (never
mind the synaptic bouton level)!
So: yeah, but not necessary.
Richard Loosemore
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