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The point isn't that everything can be proven, the point is that human brains have no special abilities that can't be emulated by computers. If you emulate ever
by habitue 13y ago
The point isn't that everything can be proven, the point is that human brains have no special abilities that can't be emulated by computers. If you emulate every neuron and neurotransmitter in the brain with a sufficiently powerful computer, you will get an intelligence that has the same perception of love, beauty, blah blah blah that people think somehow set them apart from all other matter in the universe.
In addition, once you have it modeled, its possible invent a computer that loves more deeply than any human ever could. Who understands and appreciates the human concept of beauty better than any human ever could etc.
We know these things are emergent properties of very slow meat processors, and therefore can be recreated again on very fast silicon processors.
- joedavison 13y agoI believe you are correct: human brains have no special abilities that can't be emulated by computers. But I also think that "human" == "brain" is far from a given, and that is an implicit assumption of this viewpoint.
- habitue 13y agoAre you talking about sensory perception, hormones from the rest of the body affecting cognition and emotion? Any of those effects could be replicated as well. If you're talking about a non-materialistic view of the mind: http://youtu.be/Juriylw7B0g http://youtu.be/Juriylw7B0g