real tinking

Posted by James Steiner on Jul 21, 2006; 5:23pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/computer-models-of-the-mind-tp522183p522186.html

I suspect that we won't ever get a real thinking machine by
deliberately trying to model thought. I suspect that the approach that
will ultimately work is one of two:  One: a "sufficiently complex"
evolutionary simulation system, or rather set of competing systems,
will create a concious-seeming intelligence all by itself (though that
intelligence will be non-human, and not modeled after human thought,
and we might not understand each other well--how do you instill an AI
with human concepts of morality?) or two, someone will create a
super-complex physics simulation that can take hyper-detailed 3D brain
CAT/PET/etc scan data as input then simply simulate the goings on at
the atomic level, the "mind" being an emergent property of the
"matter." Of course, the mind will probably instantly go insane, even
if provided with sufficient quantity and types of virtual senses and
body.

And we *still* won't know how the mind happens.

;)
~~James