Re:The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer
by ckuehne on Sunday May 29, 2011 @06:15PM
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>>There is a crucial difference between believing that a computer can simulate a brain and believing that a windmill can do so.
>That depends entirely on what you think a brain is
No. It depends on what you think a computer is. You see, the reason why many scientist today believe that a brain is computer or can be simulated by a computer is that computers are universal machines. In contrast to a mill, which can only mill grains, a computer can simulate earthquakes, the weather, cars, other computers, and, you guessed it, mills.
>People are ignoring a good lot of scientific method when they propose that were a computer to every simulate a brain the veracity of that simulation could ever be verified.
No. It depends on what you think a computer is. You see, the reason why many scientist today believe that a brain is computer or can be simulated by a computer is that computers are universal machines. In contrast to a mill, which can only mill grains, a computer can simulate earthquakes, the weather, cars, other computers, and, you guessed it, mills.
>People are ignoring a good lot of scientific method when they propose that were a computer to every simulate a brain the veracity of that simulation could ever be verified.
You seem to ignore the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test.
>What would essentially be needed in the simulation, that is the production of consciousness, could never empirically tested.
How do you know that I am conscious? Or any other person you converse with for that matter.