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Not at all. Simulating your brain != simulating your mind. Don't become a victim of 'neurobollocks'. http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2012/09/your-bra

• dTal 13y ago
  Your New Statesman link only talks about pseudoscience and doesn't support your assertion. The mind is an emergent property of the brain. If you can't simulate a mind by simulating a brain, then what in your opinion would it take? Or is it impossible because we all have ineffable souls that the laws of physics mysteriously cannot access?
  • ExpiredLink 13y ago
    > The mind is an emergent property of the brain. This is the kind of pseudo-science that gets so much attention nowadays. Incredible.
  • smky80 13y ago
    This is exactly the sort of problem that convinced me that consciousness/mind must be a fundamental part of the (multi/uni)verse, and not something that "emerges" from matter. I find it terribly unconvincing that a specific arrangement of matter, or even an algorithm in software, just simply "spawns" a discrete consciousness from nothing. It might make sense if there was an underlying "consciousness field" or some such concept that the matter-arrangement tapped into in some manner.
    • Gravityloss 13y ago
      If we assume that, could a machine then tap this field?
    • ExpiredLink 13y ago
      > I find it terribly unconvincing that a specific arrangement of matter, or even an algorithm in software, just simply "spawns" a discrete consciousness from nothing. It's not only unconvincing but unscientific, a pseudo explanation.