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0 pointsh5rea4he6y ago0 comments

To me, the fatal flaw of HBP (or USA's competing HBI) is that they are akin to "cargo cult science", the idea that we can replicate the superficial structures to a significant enough degree that they system they impart will suddenly somehow become activated.

But just like the Melanesians with their coconut-shell headsets, there won't be anyone listening on the other end...

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p1esk6y ago

If we replicate a car with a sufficient accuracy it will start. I don’t see why this wouldn’t apply to any other piece of machinery, including a brain.

HBP should have tried a simpler task first, e.g. replicate a fruit fly’s brain.

mac010216y ago

Having replicated the fruit fly's brain, what are you going to do?

Replicate the rest of the fruit fly so that you can install the brain in it? And then replicate the world so that your software-simulated fruit fly has a natural context in which to operate?

Or just stimulate the brain with random inputs not associated with any real-world stimulus?

p1esk6y ago

I’m pretty sure simulating fly’s neural inputs would be a far easier task than simulating its brain. After verifying it works correctly we would proceed to simulating a more complex brain, say a frog. And so on.

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0 pointsh5rea4he6y ago0 comments

But just like the Melanesians with their coconut-shell headsets, there won't be anyone listening on the other end...

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p1esk6y ago

If we replicate a car with a sufficient accuracy it will start. I don’t see why this wouldn’t apply to any other piece of machinery, including a brain.

HBP should have tried a simpler task first, e.g. replicate a fruit fly’s brain.

mac010216y ago

Having replicated the fruit fly's brain, what are you going to do?

Replicate the rest of the fruit fly so that you can install the brain in it? And then replicate the world so that your software-simulated fruit fly has a natural context in which to operate?

Or just stimulate the brain with random inputs not associated with any real-world stimulus?

p1esk6y ago

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