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Achieving Substrate-Independent Minds: No, We Cannot ‘Copy’ Brains

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Fri, 2011-09-16 07:53

Saerain

Randal Koene makes a case for cyberbrains and why they needn't emulate the brain's hardware to run its software: http://www.kurzweilai.net/achieving-substrate-independent-minds-no-we-ca...

Randal A. Koene wrote:
On August 18, IBM published [url=http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-unveils-cognitive-computing-chips-combinin... intriguing update[/url] of their work in the DARPA SyNAPSE program, seeking to create efficient new computing hardware that is inspired by the architecture of neurons and neuronal networks in the brain. At [url=http://carboncopies.org/]carboncopies.org[/url], we strive to take this research a step further: to bring about and nurture projects that are crucial to achieving substrate-independent minds (SIM). That is, enable minds to operate on many different hardware platforms — not just a neural substrate. [url=http://www.kurzweilai.net/carboncopies-realistic-routes-to-substrate-ind... we seek realistic routes to SIM[/url]. But what is it that those projects should accomplish?

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