>From: Bruno Marchal > >... >I just said you were deadly wrong here, but rereading your post I find it >somehow ambiguous. >Let me comment anyway. >Human classical teleportation, although possible in principle, will not be >possible in our life time (except for those who will succeed in some lucky >cryogenisation process). Artificial brain will first be developed with >graft of genetically engineered animals neurons, through progress in >harnessing the immune system and prion diseases (that will take time). Only >latter will come "purely" artificial digital brain, and even this will be a >matter of piece by piece progress (artificial hypocampus, artificial limbic >system, .... until artificial cortex (this one will take perhaps a >millenium), and pionner of immortality will have hard time for many >technical but also social and ethical reasons.
Thanks for your patience. I can see that you are really very patient because you often reply many similar questions that you may have replied hundreds of times before. Although I appreciate your patience, I still don't agree with you about the teleportation. When we say teleportation, we mean we send someone from location A to location B *like a magic* (Start Trek stuff). The person at A is *exactly* the same as the one at B. This really has little to do with digital or artificial stuff. Human body and brain are analog, same for A & B. It's useless to use digital or artificial conversion (since I assume no substitution level). If I have a scar on my left hand, you need to teleport this scar also. Same for any of my old memories. We are not talking about the teleportation of some *standard PC parts* (like the CPU/HDD) from A to B. >But where I think you are wrong is that articial brain and body, even if it >needs a millenium of work to succeed with some reasonable probability, will >not really help us in understanding the brain and its functioning. It just >happens that, even if it is *very* difficult, the copy of a brain is almost >infinitely easier that the understanding of how a brain work (even assuming >some high substitution level). Assume no substitution level, if you can teleport me (a male) from A to B and let me agree completely that I am *exactly* (body, memory, consciousness etc.) the same me, I think it will let us own the complete understanding of the so-called consciousness, existence of soul? ... such big questions. >To be sure here comp says something rather negative: humans brains will >never completely understand the human brain. It is true that the 3000 AD >humans will perhaps eventually understand the basics of 2000 AD human's >brain, but only true their own bigger "brain" (including self-developing >machine) which will be beyond their comprehension. A little like bacteria >and amoeba "learns" to reproduce themselves without any higher level >understanding of what is going on. See my comment above. Sooner or later, I think human beings will have answers. > >Of course if comp is correct we can understand very fundamental principles >which are at the "logical origin" of the realities .... (that's what we are >discussing now). > _________________________________________________________________ Learn English via Shopping Game, FREE! http://www.linguaphonenet.com/BannerTrack.asp?EMSCode=MSN06-03ETFJ-0211E --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
