I'm about three days away from formally requesting a killthread on this EM fields crap.
1. Electromagnetism has been Well Understood (tm) for about 140 years now. 2. By [nearly] all accounts, EM fields in the brain are secondary to its operation. 3. Neural Science is a well established field that runs parallel to AGI and, yes, they do VERY careful science. 4. AGI is not, formally, a science. It is a branch of engineering. 5. In the interests of getting things done, simplifications have to be made wherever possible. 6. We are not trying to simulate a brain, we are trying to identify what characteristics are actually required to create a thinking machine. 7. The standard of evidence, at this point, to indicate some kind of non-turing computation is required to produce thinking is extraordinarily high at this point. 8. Once AGI is created it is highly probable that it could be further enhanced by means of mystical physics, ie quantum fields, and stuff, but right now it's only a distraction. 9. The brain may indeed utilize mystical physics to some extent, we should be extremely cautious about brain emulation, even if you want to stick your head in the sand about the identity issue. 10. I have some pretty strong hypothesii about how the brain works but I'm frustrated by my inability to test those hypothesii for lack of a simulation environment or a robot. I don't have either. I have been stuck at this state of not having a testing platform for ten years and it's driving me nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is what my minecraft post was about...) I saved up about $12,000 out of a required $16,000 to get a Nao but then I've been unemployed for three years and have no job prospects in this awful economy. =((((((( 11. Meanwhile, I have not been chewing up list bandwidth talking about how great my untested theory is or spending much time deriding other list participants. BTW: Hplus-talk mailing list seems to be down and the admin forwarder is down too. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
