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 apl on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:45PM (#2561956)

Non-materialism isn't as far-fetched as you make it out to be. In fact, no materialist account has managed to give a plausible explanation of how subjectivity and qualia emerge from physical substrates. Not so far, at least.

See David Chalmers, among others.

EDIT: Really? Downvotes?

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by khafra on Thursday May 19, 2011 @01:51PM (#2564787)

The short version, without references or argumentation:

Science can't prove that there aren't any supernatural requirements for a sentient mind.

However, Science has proven that most of our intuitions about our own cognition are wrong.

Since intuition is the only evidence we have that subjectivity and qualia can arise from mysterious nonphysical processes but not computational, physical processes, Occam's Razor demands that we accept the explanation which accords with proven laws of physics.

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by tedkimble on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:47PM (#2561961)

Have you looked into a Deleuzian materialist philosophy? I like DeLanda's article on the open-ended nature of the world:

http://www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de/virtualitaet/delanda.h...

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by CamperBob on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:33AM (#2563400)

I'd say the burden of proof is on the antimaterialist schools.

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