Re:The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
by chosen1111 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:59PM
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Yes. And furthermore to your point regarding emulation...if it was required to get to quantum level accuracy it might not be possible, at least according to Sandberg in his brain emulation opinion.
And even furthermore, things like the microbiome's influence on the brain are not yet well understood.
Re:The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
by garmaine on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:02PM
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But why do you need any of that to solve biological aging? It's like, step 1: boil the ocean.
Re:The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
by chosen1111 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:05PM
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Hopefully we don't. But we need to solve dementia which might require a deeper understanding of the connectome. And furthermore, the longer we age the more new diseases we will discover.
By the time we have multi-centenarians there might be whole new types of dementia that could arise.
Perhaps a better question than (do we need AGI) might be, do we need to solve protein folding before we can make meaningful progress. ie should protein folding be considered an ancillary problem or a perquisite for other solutions that must developed on the technology stack to make progress in age research
Of course I would expect a "chemical emulation or decoding" to be needed for that approach as a minimium requirement as physical brains aren't in a vacuum and have all sorts of hormonal influnces. And emulation is tricky even when dealing with simpler things like computers or Hawking's Voice emulator where the original worked based upon the assumption of transistor noise.
Even if we could get every last neuron modeled accurately without the hormonal issues there would be major emotional differences from things like not having any fear or dopamine and a configuration that expects them.