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Originally Posted by DaleDe
If you built a device and copied a human atom by atom you can't even guarantee that it would come to life, much less think. There is more than hardware going on here.
Similarly you could build a simulator that duplicated the hardware of your brain you still can't make it think.
Dale
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a) you (and Steve too) are making absolute statements about something which has not been tried. "There is more than hardware going on here" - says you, but is there any hard evidence for that?
b) If you are going to build a "thinking machine" you would probably not start from the intricate complexities of a grown human body/mind (which has had years to build up to its current complexity, not to mention countless generations of predecessors) but rather with a small neural net and expand from that.
But it is obvious you and Steve think there is something more to humans than little turing meat machines reading and writing from and to each other and the larger environment, which is fine. I disagree.