On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
> > *You would have to replicate then not only the dynamics of neurons, but > every biomolecule in the neurons,* Why? Most of the things neurons do have nothing to do with signal processing, they just involved in the same dull metabolism stuff that the cells in your big toe must do just to stay alive and keep operating. > > > This is another way of saying that biological systems, even that of a > basic prokaryote, are beyond our current abilities to simulate. Well of course its beyond our simulate, that's why we don't have uploaded minds right now! But vitrifying a human brain and storing it at liquid nitrogen temperatures indefinite is not beyond our current abilities. > *> You can't just hand wave away the enormous problems with just > simulating a bacillus, let alone something like the brain.* I would maintain that YOU can not have wave mind uploading away unless you can find some fundamental law of physics that proves it could not work, and all you can come up with is vague speculation that maybe there is something inside a Black Hole that would prevent it. > *> Now of course one can do some simulations to learn about the brain in a > model system, but this is far from mapping a brain and its conscious state > into a computer.* > If it was good enough its intellectual state would be mapped into a computer, and that's all I'm concerned with because I'm confided that consciousness will follow, I am exactly as confident of that as I am confident that Charles Darwin was right. 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.
