> --- On Wed, 3/3/10, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure if you overlooked it but the key condition in my paper is that > the inputs to the remaining brain are identical to what they would have been > if the whole brain were present. Thus, the neural activity in the partial > brain is by definition identical to what would have occured in the > corresponding part of a whole brain. It is of course grossly implausible > that this could be done in practice for a real biological brain (for one > thing, you'd pretty much have to know in advance the microscopic details of > everything that would have gone on in the removed part of the brain, or else > guess and get incredibly lucky), but it presents no difficulties in priciple > for a digital simulation,
The only fundamental difficulty I can see with this is if the brain actually uses quantum computation, as suggested by some evidence that photopsynthesis does (quoted by Bruno in another thread) - in which case it might be impossible, even in principle, to reproduce the activity of the rest of the brain (I'm not sure whether it would, but it seems a lot more likely). Charles -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
