with todays technology i seriously doubt it unless a breakthrough of major proportion is madeDo you think so?
with todays technology i seriously doubt it unless a breakthrough of major proportion is madeDo you think so?
4. Daily renewable power source that does not corrode/decay over a long time.
some are, some aren't.. . . (and a semiconductor memory is probably more energy efficient anyway) . . .
4. Daily renewable power source that does not corrode/decay over a long time.
I really doubt we ever will make something seperate from a biological system capable of consciousness.
I really doubt we ever will make something seperate from a biological system capable of consciousness.
Requisites for consciousness?
1. Mass sensory input rather than pre-selected data
2. Processing based on previously successful processes rather than set program
3. Memory storage and deletion based on usage/usefulness of data
What else?
Assuming consciousness is purely a phyiscal process without the need of something supernatural, it can be replicated, be it with artificall neurons on silicon or even simulated on a computer that powerful enough.
billvon said:A very accurate machine simulation of a conscious biological system will be just as conscious as the biological system. It's a very messy and expensive way to do it though.
with current computing technology it's irrelevant what the machine is made of.. . . and that consciousness can be duplicated via a machine simulation with its limited parts(meaning the atoms and assortment of atoms used in the machines construction).
I don't agree with you two on this point, it could be that a very accurate machine simulation can result in consciousness but that is assuming that all there is to consciousness is within the limited scope of what we currently understand about brain functions and that consciousness can be duplicated via a machine simulation with its limited parts(meaning the atoms and assortment of atoms used in the machines construction).
The role of proteins and chemicals for example, thus the need for a semi-biological system.
A simulation is just a means to explore our abstract understandings. A machine can simulate but not replicate or duplicate. You can simulate movement, but all you've accomplished is modeling an abstraction of what movement is.
I don't agree with you two on this point, it could be that a very accurate machine simulation can result in consciousness but that is assuming that all there is to consciousness is within the limited scope of what we currently understand about brain functions and that consciousness can be duplicated via a machine simulation with its limited parts(meaning the atoms and assortment of atoms used in the machines construction). I personally think that if we ever do understand the hard problem we will understand that there is more to consciousness then a mere machine simulation could replicate. The role of proteins and chemicals for example, thus the need for a semi-biological system.
you don't even need to know how it arises.If we do understand exactly how consciousness arises in humans then we will be able, with enough computing power, to simulate it: . . .
More so there is not proof as of yet that alternative mechanism for "proteins and chemicals" that provide the analog super-turing operations of the brain can't be found: http://www.artificialbrains.com/darpa-synapse-program
A simulation is just a means to explore our abstract understandings. A machine can simulate but not replicate or duplicate. You can simulate movement, but all you've accomplished is modeling an abstraction of what movement is.