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Re:Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understan... by jasongullickson on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:55AM (#1620715)
Based on this post (and more so what I've been able to find of the original discussion) I don't think he's overlooking this at all; if anything it's so obvious that he's not calling it out literally, like saying "I'm building an automobile"; you don't expect to have to say it's going to have wheels...
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Re:Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understan... by scott_s on Friday August 20, 2010 @12:23PM (#1620801)
That's because we already know how a car works. We know that wheels and an engine are necessary, but a cupholder is not. Meyers' point, as I understand it, is our understanding of the brain is not yet sophisticated to know what we can exclude from simulation.
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Re:Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understan... by kragen on Friday August 20, 2010 @03:06PM (#1621253)
When Wilbur and Orville Wright went to go build a bird, they did not endow it with a beak and talons.
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