Creating a brain

[Proxy]

http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markr...s_secrets.html

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]

Pleasure doing business, ez.

Sincerely,

Skynet.

[MannyIsGod]

I'll read the article later but simply sounds like more AI information.

[RandomGuy]

http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markr...s_secrets.html

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]

Pleasure doing business, ez.

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]

Pleasure doing business, ez.

Sincerely,

Skynet.

[Wild Cobra]

---ooops--- double...

[Wild Cobra]

No, that's science fiction. This one will be more like Colossus.

[Halberto]

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]

Hm... I will take that article with a giant heaping of salt, thanks.

[Wild Cobra]

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]

Of course, even if he developed said supercomputer, you'd still have the whole "Chinese room" problem.