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I am pretty sure that we have not ruled out the possibility that a computer program could simulate a brain, have we?
by d_tr 4y ago
I am pretty sure that we have not ruled out the possibility that a computer program could simulate a brain, have we?
- Robotbeat 4y agoA computer program can simulate the known chemically-relevant physical laws, including quantum mechanics. Saying the mind is somehow beyond quantifiable physics is equivalent to dualism.
- gizajob 4y agoSo get back to us when you've written it and your computationally simulated brain is talking to us.
- Robotbeat 4y agoIs the human brain doing something fundamentally different than some other animal brain, say a Chimpanzee or mouse? Or is it just doing more of it, is it just larger and perhaps a bit more efficient and maybe organized? I see no reason to say the human brain is a fundamentally different kind of computation than any other animal brain. So is there some animal brain, no matter how primitive, that we could in principle simulate? I think so. I think that is realistically within our capacity.
- gizajob 4y agoThere's a big difference between having an operating computable function computing on real hardware, and having the idea that a certain phenomenon is potentially computable.
- Robotbeat 4y agoWell yes, but what does that have to do with the original point, the implied claim that there are some thoughts which are not computable?
- gizajob 4y agoI wasn't invoking any kind of woo woo, but at the same time it's easy to say "this is computable" when in reality it's not computable at all because we can't actually construct such a simulation. We have the computing power today to simulate a brain if we were so inclined.