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Given that we currently have no testable hypothesis as to what is responsible for consciousness, but only speculations such as "it's an emergent behaviour", isn
by teilo 17y ago
Given that we currently have no testable hypothesis as to what is responsible for consciousness, but only speculations such as "it's an emergent behaviour", isn't Markram's assertion, "If we build this brain right, it will do everything ... I mean everything" a statement of blind faith?
I am all for this research, but I also wonder if we are not going down a blind alley, ignoring other possibilities that may well be testable.
- modeless 17y agoI don't think it takes any faith to say that a sufficiently precise simulation of the physical characteristics of the brain would produce output similar to that of a real brain. To the contrary; saying otherwise would require faith in new physics (some sort of "spiritual energy"?) that we have no evidence for at this time.