I'm reading "Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos" by Peter M. Hoffmann, and it pretty thoroughly disavowed me of the notion that we'

I'm reading "Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos" by Peter M. Hoffmann, and it pretty thoroughly disavowed me of the notion that we're anywhere near understanding how the brain works, which doesn't bode well for one approach to the Singularity. While the book isn't about AI per se, the complexity that it hints at in biological systems is (yet another) warning shot across the bow of my personal AI voyaging ship, telling me to avoid those waters (actually it's more like the Kraken from Pirates of the Caribbean). I've never espoused AI technology that attempted to emulate the physical brain, believing it too complex an approach. But taking another brief peek into the black box of living systems scared the crap out of me! I'm glad I didn't pursue biochemistry as a field of study so many years ago. My mind would be full up by now with little to show for it.