On Jul 22, 10:18 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course if you > have to model it at the quark level, you might as well make your > artificial neuron out of quarks and it won't be all that "artificial".
Actually, I think it would have to be a real quark (if quarks even 'exist'). The bottom line is that silicon is already made of something. We can project our own sense and motives through silicon, but whatever we project is only an exterior that faces our observation. It's interior remains a silicon interior, unable to precipitate a larger structure that has a biological spectrum of feeling. The behavior of a quark isn't mathematically inevitable in all possible universes, it's math is forensically reverse engineered from our observations. To simulate those observations doesn't bring the unobservable interiority of the original into simulated existence. Craig -- 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.
