On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think it very likely that a silicon neuron could work. But it would > work like a peg leg works. You could still get around, but it wouldn't > grow or self heal or tell you when it was hot or cold. My first car was a piece of junk, a used 1960 Corvair, but even it could tell me when it was too hot or too cold; why would an intelligent computer be unable to do the same thing? > Your brain can actually grow new neurons and remove dead and > non-functioning ones, and respond to hormones. A human brain can't get larger than the skull, but a computer could get as physically large as it wanted, and it could replace bad chips with good ones too. > > For example, you don't consciously notice hormone levels, so if you > stopped responding to them you wouldn't notice, and nobody else would > either unless they were monitoring hormone levels in your blood. You wouldn't notice if you no longer got very scared or very angry and other people wouldn't notice if you were no longer interested in sex? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
