Bruno and Jason The complexity issue concerns me, perhaps because of the Deep space 9 episode:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Life_Support_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) Ronald
On Dec 16, 11:39 am, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:57 AM, ronaldheld <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jason: > > I do not think a neutron take more trhan a finite amount of voltage > > to be able to fire. I do wonder if merely replacing the bio parts by > > processing hardware, do you lose the part of the complexity of the > > mind? Np problem with an antimatter man and mind. > > If the mechanical replacements have the same repertoire and behavior as the > biological parts I don't see how the complexity would be lessened. Many > people feel lessened to be thought of as a machine, but they probably don't > fully appreciate just how complex of a machine the brain is. It has 100 > billion neurons (about 1 for each stars in this galaxy) and close to 1 > quintillion connections or 1,000,000,000,000,000 (about 1 connection for > every cent of US debt). People aren't familiar with man-made machines > anywhere near this level of complexity and so it is understandable that one > could doubt a machine acting like a human. However, I think this is mainly a > prejudice instilled by the types of (comparatively simple) machines we deal > with on a daily basis. > > Jason -- 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.
