On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected] > wrote:
>> It's not the wind its diffusion that send the signal on its way, which >> means exactly where the signal is sent is NOT critical and the time it >> takes to transmit it can't be critical either. So you think technology will >> find that duplicating this meager feat will be insuperably difficult. Why? >> Sending a signal with a tiny informational content very very slowly and >> successfully hitting a HUGE target seems to me to be the easiest part of >> the entire thing. > > *> I don’t think it’s impossible,* Forget impossible, overall mind uploading might be difficult but the part of it that you're talking about would not only be possible it would be easy. > *> but if you want a neural implant to work like the biological > equivalent, it must communicate with neurones via neurotransmitters,* You think only a chemical could send that signal, and specifically only the particular chemical that Homo Sapiens happens to use will work? WHY? > > it must modulate it’s responses according to circulating hormones, it > must develop new connections and prune old connections, it must upregulate > and downregulate its responsiveness to neurotransmitters according to its > history There are two ways to accomplish this: 1) A neural net computer could do it directly, and that’s the way it would probably be done. 2) A conventional computer with a Von Neumann architecture could simulate a neural net computer, that would slow things way down but if Nanotechnology was used the increase in the speed of the hardware would be so enormous it would still think faster than you or me. 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.
