simulating a brain

[Triple Zero]

i got this link via a global guerilla blogpost cain sent me, but i found the linked article to be way more interesting:

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?page=all&p=y

it is rather awesome, in fact.

[Jasper]

Can't read all of it, doing my homework before class, but wow.

[Cramulus]

That was really cool! I read about this project a few years back - it's good to see that they're making "progress". I can't wait to find out of they can make a functional robot with a rat brain. Fascinating stuff.

[Jasper]

The bright lad DID say he's aiming for a simulation that can do "anything".  I hope he's not off his bean, because that would save me a lot of legwork in doing what I want to do with robots.

Of course this assumes what he's done can't be done better.

[Cramulus]

The bright lad DID say he's aiming for a simulation that can do "anything".  I hope he's not off his bean, because that would save me a lot of legwork in doing what I want to do with robots.

Quoted for Fucking TRUTH

[B_M_W]

The first time I saw news about this project, I thought, they'll never reach the level of complexity needed to simulate human concious processes, and not only that, but they're trying to run it on computers.

Now that I see more detail, that the connections are actually simulating a full neural network of "synapses" and how they are truly modeling it off of neural physiology, it is much more plausable and interesting to me.

The question is not can we, the question is, should we?

[Jasper]

I think whether or not we "should" is academic at this point.  The reality is that there is a lot of money in intelligent mechanical labor, and it's going to happen eventually regardless, assuming it can happen.