--- Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that it should be possible to simulate a brain on a computer, > but I don't see how you can be so confident that you can throw away > most of the details of brain structure with impunity. Tiny changes to > neurons which make no difference to the anatomy or synaptic structure > can have large effects on neuronal behaviour, and hence whole organism > behaviour. You can't leave this sort of thing out of the model and > hope that it will still match the original.
And people can lose millions of neurons without a noticeable effect. And removing a 0.1 micron chunk out of a CPU chip can cause it to fail, yet I can run the same programs on a chip with half as many transistors. Nobody knows how to make an artificial brain, but I am pretty confident that it is not necessary to preserve its structure to preserve its function. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=96140713-a54b2b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
