On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:36:39AM -0700, Dorian Aur wrote: > Telmo, > > (i) Indeed, reverse-engineering the brain *on a digital computer is a much > harder problem* > (ii) Also, consciousness (like NLP) is a particularly "hard problem" only *if > we like to replicate it solely on digital computers *
you still haven't addressed the fact that consciousness is a political issue, it's not an engineering problem. by NLP do you mean natural language processing? If so, I'm not sure why you think it is relevant. > initially create heterogeneous teams to engineer the hybrid system using > biological building blocks. > if you are using biological building blocks, then you take the A out of AGI. then it becomes simply a brain in a vat, or biological cells in a vat, which can already do plenty of things. > I strongly feel that this endeavor will be the fastest, less expensive > and most effective path towards AGI and brain therapy. > I guess it's the more transhuman approach, of shoving microchips into peoples heads, and attaching them to vats of brain cells. anyways, I don't find it particularly useful, we can't for instance colonize venus or mercury with biological dependancies. maintaining even a small fridge at over 200 degrees Celsius away from ambient is a serious energy drain. only thing it might be useful is for some political stuff Earth-side: "this human had a normal brain, but got some brain trauma, and now has been restored to beyond their previous abilities through chip implants", much as they already do by allowing quadraplegics to use mice and possibly keyboards. ------------------------------------------- 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
