27th January 2006, 2:56 PM
I think I should explain that this isn't just building a sophisticated program pretending to be human.
It's a physics simulation of the activity that goes on in a human brain as we currently understand it. The idea is to test current understanding of brain physiology to see if it can create an intelligence. If this works, then from there we can start examining it to see how it works. It's reverse engineering basically, rather than actually knowing how a human intelligence works and creating the program, it's knowing the physics behind it and creating a program simulating it to see how the intelligence operates.
That said, if this is succesful, it should have all the capabilities of a human being. It's not an android, it's a realian.
It's a physics simulation of the activity that goes on in a human brain as we currently understand it. The idea is to test current understanding of brain physiology to see if it can create an intelligence. If this works, then from there we can start examining it to see how it works. It's reverse engineering basically, rather than actually knowing how a human intelligence works and creating the program, it's knowing the physics behind it and creating a program simulating it to see how the intelligence operates.
That said, if this is succesful, it should have all the capabilities of a human being. It's not an android, it's a realian.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)