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Re:Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understan... by nkassis on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:58AM (#1620729)
Is that even required? I mean, to simulate a brain, would you really need to go all the way down to simulating every cell or could an averaging of the interactions be enough?

I don't know if what I said even makes sense but I really don't believe that we need something that simulates the brain at the cell level to replicate some of the processes.

Re:Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understan... by scott_s on Friday August 20, 2010 @12:19PM (#1620790)
We don't know, which I think is Meyers' point. That is, until we understand all of these interactions, we don't know what the brain actually is.