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Right. I'll attempt to bolster your argument, if I may... We know that human and animal brains are made out of simple components. Probably the same component

Right. I'll attempt to bolster your argument, if I may... We know that human and animal brains are made out of simple components. Probably the same components. The difference between animals and humans seems to be in how those components are arranged and how many of them there are. We've already demonstrated digital components that approximate individual neurons, and we've already demonstrated wiring groups of them up to perform useful work. I think that if we find ourselves at an inflection point in history, it is because there might exist some relatively simply arrangement of digital neurons which results in a machine which can learn some sort of rudimentary self awareness[1] while also possessing a computer's ability to do math, store data, and recall data, communicate on the internet, etc. 1. Spend year of days with a newborn if you don't already know that humans have to learn it, too.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
Another thing is that we've figured out a medium that can compute faster than human and animal brains. In theory, a brain mimicked in silicon should run faster than wet one, and that itself coupled with some optimized access (i.e. not eyes OCRing text) to information would be enough for an entity to be smarter than humans. Of course one shouldn't say that a silicon brain would be better than a wet one - by doing computing the way we do it, we're sacrificing a lot. Biological systems are more resilient, can repair and replicate themselves without a need for complex processing industry we have (to be honest, the ecosystem is sort of an industry, but it's already well developed and much better integrated than the human-made). But there are things we could trade off for increased intelligence when designing our own minds.