nazgulnarsil comments on David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 29 January 2011 09:31:13PM 1 point [-]

I'm playing devil's advocate in that I don't think the brain will turn out to be anything more than a complex signal processor.

neurons do seem fairly simple, we don't know what's waiting for us when we try to algorithmically model the rest of the brain's structure though.

Comment author: shokwave 30 January 2011 06:12:02AM 2 points [-]

we don't know what's waiting for us when we try to algorithmically model the rest of the brain's structure

Very true. It's not going to be anywhere near as hard as the naysayers claim; but it's definitely much harder than we're capable of now.