Hamerhoff - 2001 - on Kurzweilai.net
Consciousness Connects Our Brains to the Fundamental Level of the Universeby
Stuart Hameroff -
Originally published May 14, 2001 on KurzweilAI.net.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0183.html
This is really a great look at the consciousness issue. Whay did I miss this ???
I was really connected with this whole issue back then. Perhaps I saw it but
this is really a great format that jumps out at you....Oh well ....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0688.html
From Kurzweil : 2006 ( note date 2030 )
Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness
by
Rodney BrooksRay KurzweilDavid Gelernter
Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic "zombies" or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even "spiritual" machines? David Gelernter and Ray Kurzweil debated this key question at MIT on Nov. 30.
But that's because you're thinking of software as you know it today, if in fact you have a massively parallel system, as the brain is, with 100 trillion internal connections, all of which are computing simultaneously, and which in fact we can model those internal connections and neurons quite realistically in some cases today. We're still in the early part of that process. But even John Searle agrees that a neuron is basically a machine and can be modeled and simulated, so why can't we do that with massively parallel system with 100 trillion-fold parallelism? And if that seems ridiculous, that is ridiculous today, but it's not ridiculous with the kind of technology we'll have with 30 more doublings of price, performance, capacity, and bandwidth of information technology, the kind of technology we'll have around 2030.
These massively parallel systems with the complexity of the human brain, which is a moderate level of complexity, because the design of the human brain is in the genome and the genome has 800 million bytes, but that's uncompressed, has massive redundancies—ALU's repeated 300,000 times. If you apply loss that's compression of the genome, you can reduce it to 30-50 million bytes, which is not simple, but it's a level of complexity we can manage.
posted by Marc Bellario @ 6:15 AM
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