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Why is consciousness special? What do you think about IBM's project to simulate a rat brain neuron by neuron?
by rms 19y ago
Why is consciousness special? What do you think about IBM's project to simulate a rat brain neuron by neuron?
- gruseom 19y agoI'm not sure consciousness is special (or what "special" means). I brought it up as an example. But it doesn't really matter. "What if consciousness is not an algorithm" is just a special case of "What if not everything about humans is computable". That's the real point. Any grandiose claim about this seems to me laughably unsubstantiated. Yet there it is, giggling underneath the solemnity of the Singularians. Edit: don't know about the rat project. Curious to know the results.