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> There is no reason we know that brain emulation is not possible. Well, neither is there any reason we know that it's possible. You're just demonstrating you
by otabdeveloper4 5y ago
> There is no reason we know that brain emulation is not possible.
Well, neither is there any reason we know that it's possible.
You're just demonstrating your apriori biases ("the brain is just a computer"), nothing more.
- YetAnotherNick 5y agoWe have reason to believe it's possible because we know we can simulate a single neuron. It's just the sheer complexity of full brain we can't scan and efficiently simulate.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoThere's absolutely no reason to believe that the brain can be reduced to a collection of neurons. It's what we want to believe, because it's simpler and makes us feel in control; but in real nature there's intelligence without neurons, and the brain needs much more than neurons to do its thing. P.S. If we presume that human intelligence is a random processes, then there's no reason to think that this random process can create another that has more information complexity than the original. It makes no sense mathematically.