Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Aug 23, 7:44 pm, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: [Col] Nope. They won't/don't. It may (not shown conclusively yet) cause cellular malfunction in humans (like glioma). In inorganic replication, they will not be subject to biological malfunction because all the biological

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:01 AM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Stathis, allow me to barge in before Craig. I am glad you ask  -  the wrong question, I am not FOR the brain to think, it is a tool working in the process we did not so far deciphered. (That's exactly MY agnosticism). So we

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-23 Thread John Mikes
Stathis wrote: *So you agree that chemistry, which is all that the brain contains, is **no more magical than electronics?* * * * - - - -O B J E C T I O N ! - - -* you added which is all that the brain contains smuggled into my position, which contains ...all we know today and include into the

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Aug 23, 5:53 pm, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Stathis wrote: *So you agree that chemistry, which is all that the brain contains, is **no more magical than electronics?* * * * - - - -O B J E C T I O N ! - - -* you added which is all that the brain contains smuggled into my

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-23 Thread meekerdb
On 8/23/2011 3:33 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: I’ve just had a whole bunch of fun at the Melbourne Singularity Summit. What a ‘hoot’! At the conference I made a somewhat thwarted attempt to introduce physical replication as a ‘roadmap item’ for AGI. I tried to show that AGI may be

RE: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-23 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
[Col] I've just had a whole bunch of fun at the Melbourne Singularity Summit. What a 'hoot'! At the conference I made a somewhat thwarted attempt to introduce physical replication as a 'roadmap item' for AGI. I tried to show that AGI may be reached by constructing the actual necessary physics

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: [Col] I’ve just had a whole bunch of fun at the Melbourne Singularity Summit. What a ‘hoot’! Really sorry I couldn't attend last weekend. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:36 AM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Craig, you know more about the 'IBM-Synapse' achievement than myself (easy: I know nothing, did not even thopughtfully decipher the article in all its details). I would ask IBM (they may not reply of course) if their

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Aug 20, 9:36 pm, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Craig, you know more about the 'IBM-Synapse' achievement than myself (easy: I know nothing, did not even thopughtfully decipher the article in all its details). I would ask IBM (they may not reply of course) if their machine (chip?) can

Re: IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-21 Thread John Mikes
Stathis, allow me to barge in before Craig. I am glad you ask - * the wrong question*, I am not FOR the brain to think, it is a tool working in the process we did not so far deciphered. (That's exactly MY agnosticism). So we are talking about tools, be it 'chemistry' (an explanational figment of

IBM produces first 'brain chips'

2011-08-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747 Looks like we may be finding out sooner rather than later whether there is more to the psyche than networking logic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send