On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 at 9:15 pm, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > The problem I was alluding to was how to interface with existing biological systems. You could make a camera that exceeds the performance of the human eye, but that doesn’t mean you can use it to replace damaged eyes. It would be easier to use the camera in a robot than a cyborg. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
