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>> Modeling is not simulation, we can model a system after the human brain without simulating every last detail. Maybe so, but I think the author is arguing th
by nathan_long 14y ago
>> Modeling is not simulation, we can model a system after the human brain without simulating every last detail.
Maybe so, but I think the author is arguing that those details are part of the emergent whole; in other words, without them, you might get an intelligence, but a very alien one.
- pbw 14y agoThomas waves his hands and says "the brain is really complicated". He doesn't address how much complexity needs to be modeled, but he implies a lot of it does. Kurzweil says a "sufficiently complex" program will exhibit consciousness. So the rub is exactly what are the essential properties of the brain, and what are the accidental ones or the ones that can be implemented some other way.