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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by baddox on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:59PM (#23797596)
> Life in general and your brain in particular may very well be more than "just chemistry". We really don't know.

That claim has roughly the same epistemological status as Last Thursdayism ("the world was created last Thursday in a state where we have memories and see evidence of past events but those events aren't actually real.").

> What we do know at this point is that no amount of "just chemistry" has ever managed to create even the most rudimentary form of "life" from inert chemicals.

How do we know that? Are you just talking about humans practicing chemistry?

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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by neatze on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:32PM (#23798974)
Emerging field of quantum biology if fairly new, there numerous processes in neural networks for which current understanding of chemistry and mathematics is not sufficient.

For example, how transfer of functions emerges after hemispherectomy (half a brain is removed), to best of my understanding is unknown.

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