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Surely if you created a physics virtual machine and loaded an image with all of the atoms and electrons in place.. you'd simulate the brain. I imagine it would
by coopdog 14y ago
Surely if you created a physics virtual machine and loaded an image with all of the atoms and electrons in place.. you'd simulate the brain. I imagine it would take a lot of computational power, but it's not 'never'
Unless we're talking about souls here or something
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoWe could simulate but we'd still have problems with understanding it. Even understanding neural networks we train ourselves is very hard to impossible at our current level of enlightenment.
- comex 14y agoMaybe, but that's not the point. The article is bizarrely arguing that the brain is not computable, somehow can never be simulated with any amount of computing power, despite existing in a universe mostly described by simple mathematical laws. Ridiculous.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoYa I got that, but what would be the point of simulating if it didn't lead to understanding? The existing universe is only mostly described by simple mathematical laws. There are still lots of gaps in our understanding, just getting all the matter position and states probably wouldn't be good enough since we don't know the exact program yet to carry the simulation forward. However, that is a technical rather than theoretical limitation.
- comex 14y agoWhy simulate? For immortality and what VMs call snapshots and cloning, of course. ;p
- stefantalpalaru 14y agoIf we really need to simulate interactions at molecular level we're fracked. That kind of computational power is unimaginable.
- kristofferR 14y agoSo was Petabytes 60 years ago, yet today there are people who have single-handedly uploaded more than that on private BitTorrent trackers. Never say never.