I have to disagree with Kurzweil here. I remember in one of the Kinect videos, the researcher who worked on the mic array explained that the billion neurons all

I have to disagree with Kurzweil here. I remember in one of the Kinect videos, the researcher who worked on the mic array explained that the billion neurons allowed such a level of processing that we could extract info from the noise easily. The amount of computational resources needed to combat information overload on one sense organ is immense. To be able to pull that off with 5 organs, regulate body function, make inferences with ease, apply vast swaths of info to fields completely unrelated to the underlying information is just immense. Although, I can see a budding brain peripherals market in about 2050+. It is just that we need a lot more than computational resources to emulate the brain. One interesting quote I took away from a cognition class (the only one I considered legit in our Psych dept.) was that we tend to compare our brain to the most advanced tech of the moment. My gut feeling says that the current computational models we use are not adequate representations of the human mind and potentially a socratic approach also might fall short.