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Not that I wouldn't like to be as optimistic, too, but Nature does seem to have made enough use of unreliably folding proteins to have come up with BSE, Parkins
by dhs 16y ago
Not that I wouldn't like to be as optimistic, too, but Nature does seem to have made enough use of unreliably folding proteins to have come up with BSE, Parkinson's disease, and some others <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding#Incorrect_protein_folding_and_neurodegenerative_disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding#Incorrect_prote... >.
I'm a big fan of Scott Aaronson, too, btw :-) Here's a pic of him demoing the soap bubbles experiment he refers to in that paper you linked to <http://www.scottaaronson.com/soapbubble.jpg http://www.scottaaronson.com/soapbubble.jpg >.
- jerf 16y agoI thought of mentioning that, actually, but figured it would be extraneous. However, if they are all indeed pathological then perhaps we can do our simulated humans a favor and not simulate the pathological path. Still, as discussed in another comment I made, I seriously, seriously doubt that we will ever simulate any sort of intelligence by raw physical simulation. It just isn't feasible with any realistic computational technique.