Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers
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Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers
Computer architecture isn’t telling a machine what to do. It’s establishing the possibility that it can be told anything at all. The work is superhuman, if not fully alien. Put it this way: If you found the exact place in a human being where matter becomes mind, where body becomes soul—a place that no scientist or philosopher or spiritual figure ha... See more
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The most compelling scenario for mastering the software of intelligence is to tap into the blueprint of the best example we can get our hands on of an intelligent process. There is no reason why we cannot reverse engineer the human brain, and essentially copy its design. We can readily see every neuron and every connection and every neurotransmitte... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Is the human brain different from a computer?The answer depends on what we mean by the word “computer.” Certainly the brain uses very different methods from conventional contemporary computers. Most computers today are all digital and perform one (or perhaps a few) computations at a time at extremely high speed. With regard to digital versus analog... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The genetic system in every living cell is a stored-program computer. Brains aren’t.
John Brockman • Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
At some point we might perhaps be able to read the rough details of someone’s life—what he did and what was important to him—from the exact molding of his neural resources. If feasible, this would amount to a new kind of science. By looking at how the brain shaped itself, could we know what a person was exposed to, and perhaps what he cared about?
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