Craig Weinberg wrote: > > On Aug 15, 10:43 pm, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am more worried for the biologically handicapped in the future. >> Computers >> will get faster, brains won't. By 2029, it is predicted $1,000 worth of >> computer will buy a human brain's worth of computational power. 15 years >> later, you can get 1,000 X the human brain's power for $1,000. Imagine: >> the >> simulated get to experience 1 century for each month the humans with >> biological brains experience. Who will really be alive then? > > Speed and power is for engines, not brains. Good ideas don't come from > engines. > > Craig > I agree. It is a very narrow to think computational power is the key to rich experience and high intelligence. The real magic is what is done with the hardware. And honestly I see no reason to believe that we somehow we magically develop amazingly intelligent software. Software development is slow, no comparison to the exponential progress of hardware. I believe that it is inherently impossible to design intelligence. It can just self-organize itself through becoming aware of itself. I am not even sure anymore whether this will have to do very much to do with technology. Technology might have an fundamental restriction to being a tool of intelligence, not the means to increase intelligence at the core (just relative, superficial intelligence like intellectual knowledge).
Also, we have no reliable way of measuring the computational power of the brain, not to speak of the possibly existing subtle energies that go beyond the brain, that may be essential to our functioning. The way that computational power of the brain is estimated now relies on a quite reductionstic view of what the brain is and what it does. benjayk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Turing-Machines-tp32259675p32271222.html Sent from the Everything List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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.
