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Proxy
07-06-2011, 04:22 AM
http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.h tml
Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.
This proves that there is no such thing as a soul. There is no afterlife. We are on the verge of creating a brain.
We're about to play "God." Believing in any sort of dogma these days is really the ultimate sign of close mindedness.
~cheers
admiralsnackbar
07-06-2011, 09:18 AM
Pleasure doing business, bitchez.
Sincerely,
Skynet.
MannyIsGod
07-06-2011, 09:38 AM
I'll read the article later but simply sounds like more AI information. :tu
RandomGuy
07-06-2011, 11:36 AM
http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.h tml
Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.
This proves that there is no such thing as a soul. There is no afterlife. We are on the verge of creating a brain.
We're about to play "God." Believing in any sort of dogma these days is really the ultimate sign of close mindedness.
~cheers
Somewhat off topic:
Ted.com is one of those really really good gems on the internet with a lot of stuff that both informs and inspires.
RandomGuy
07-06-2011, 11:37 AM
Pleasure doing business, bitchez.
Sincerely,
Skynet.
I hope whatever form of super-intelligent life we end up creating treats us or our children well.
Kurzweil has it pegged, IMO.
Winehole23
07-06-2011, 12:26 PM
Pleasure doing business, bitchez.
Sincerely,
Skynet.:rollin
Wild Cobra
07-06-2011, 12:29 PM
---ooops--- double...
Wild Cobra
07-06-2011, 12:33 PM
No, that's science fiction. This one will be more like Colossus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_%28novel%29).
Halberto
07-06-2011, 01:09 PM
You're all assuming this will work. I don't know much about the subject, but those figures it seems like there is a lot of room for error...
LnGrrrR
07-06-2011, 01:30 PM
Hm... I will take that article with a giant heaping of salt, thanks.
Wild Cobra
07-06-2011, 01:44 PM
Does anyone realize how big the memory of such a construct alone would be. We have at best maybe 50 nano-meter gate spacing. It takes several gates per memory cell.
I did the math. I suggest others do also.
LnGrrrR
07-06-2011, 03:32 PM
Of course, even if he developed said supercomputer, you'd still have the whole "Chinese room" problem.
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