http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25377

Neil Gershenfeld<http://www.edge.org/memberbio/neil_gershenfeld>
Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Author, FAB

Totally agree: He blames Turing and von Neumann

So do I.

We stopped doing real empirical work on the inorganic brain 60 years ago. We 
failed for 60 years to make an inorganic brain.

Computer "Science" was never and never will be an empirical science at all. It 
is 100% the experimental exploration of theoretical models .... and has been 
generationally systemically confused with empirical science.

Party's over.

Cheers
Colin

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