> From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool said: > > > Processing at the same bitrate and simulate the human mind are > > different things. What they have to do to simulate a human mind is to > > simulate it's, connectivity, its network. > > Well, what do you mean by processing at the same bit rate then? It's > been a long time since I made the calculations that came up with 2020-5 > as the time when our computers are powerful enough to simulate a mind, > but I definitely took into account having to handle the many > connections between neurons.
To process the same amount of information. Simulating a mind would require substantiall more data processing than a real mind processes. I'm not saying that it would be able to do everything that a human mind would be able to do at that point. > > The real interesting bit is that the singularity theory is one of the > > better explanations for Fermi's paradox. > > I don't think it is. I think the only real explanation for Fermi's > Paradox is that we've massively underestimated the likelihood of > evolution of cultural toolmakers. I don't think the Singularity is a > sufficiently strong attractor that all technological civilisations fall > into it, and if cultural toolmakers are common then there will be at > least some that don't. It only takes one to colonise the galaxy with > self-replicating machines and it would be entirely obvious to us. So where are they?
