I don't agree with you on this topic. 
In your blog you say "just imagine that you have 
all that computational power right now [..] how 
the hell do you program a human mind in there"
It is perhaps easier than we think: the brain
delegates its own construction largely to the 
environment. All you need is therefore a suitable 
environment (which is complex enough) and an 
adaptive system with a high capability to learn, 
including advanced learning rules (something as 
simple as the delta-rule for neural networks,
Oja's learning rule or Hebb's rule). Then connect 
it to the real world (through a robot) or a realistic 
virtual world (through an agent) and start learning. 
The drawback is of course then you might end up
with an artificial mind you don't understand
anymore. It is for instance very hard to understand 
even simple neural networks that have been 
trained with backpropagation and the 
delta-rule.

-J.
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From: Carlos Gershenson
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:08 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] singularity

"How the hell do you program a human mind in there???
It takes us several years just to learn to talk!"
        


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