Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024

Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by ericb on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @04:00PM (#2561522)

This is a great question. I was put under for a surgery at one point. I was effectively "dead" from my perspective during the duration of the surgery in that no time seemed to have passed between when I was put under and when I came t. My consciousness was "off" in a way that is not when merely sleeping. It seems like this is a parallel for unplugging an AI, but then you have the problem of the AI losing whatever is in RAM.

The non-humanness of an AI might slow the realization that creating an AI should probably embody the same responsibilities as having a child.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by eschulte on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @04:47PM (#2561743)

Technically, when you're in deep (non-REM) sleep your conscious is also turned off.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by spot on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:29PM (#2561906)

yes but during deep sleep you still sense the passage of time. when you wake up after general anesthesia, it's like changing channels. very weird.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by jacques_chester on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @06:41PM (#2562130)

My most refreshing sleep feels as though I have skipped forward from night to morning without the tedious period of time in-between.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by hasenj on Thursday May 19, 2011 @12:34AM (#2562889)

There were times in my life when I woke up (from normal sleep) thinking I didn't sleep at all, while in fact I slept for hours and hours.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by alnayyir on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @07:17PM (#2562245)

I don't, when I sleep I die. (Usually)

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