X-Message-Number: 27608 From: Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:48:14 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #27561 Identity & Uploading Message #27561 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:57:56 -0500 Subject: From: <> > >Myth #4: That the human brain can be simulated on X number of FPGA. > >This is insane. Each neuron is a quantum and molecular computer, No, this is plain false, neron and brain have nothing to do with quantum. Look at a physics book so you can define quantitatively what is the quantum limit in term of the Planck's constant. Neurons are millions times larger than the quantum limit. >consisting of quatrillions of atoms (10^11). It may not be ever >possible (practical?) to accurately simulate a single neuron, let >alone trillions of them. > Only 3 to 4 billions in the neocortex, look at a neuro-book. >You can't treat neurons as black boxes and expect to get the same >result. I personally doubt that any 'model' of a neuron can be used >in constructing a virtual brain with human-level intelligence; >rather, I expect the greatest strides in the development of AI to >come from completely different (non-biological) approaches. > Unobtainium is the solution of religious persons, that is not a religious problem. YB. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27608