(November 21, 2015 at 3:55 am)Darkstar Wrote: Relevant:
https://youtu.be/YWQnzylhgHc?list=WL
It isn't replicating a human mind, but I think this is still pretty interesting. Using a conventional programming language to recreate the human mind would probably be very difficult if not virtually impossible, but if neurons were simulated instead...
Of course, I am under the impression that in order to perfectly simulate all of the neurons in the human brain you would need to discover how all how all of those neurons work first. But then again, maybe not. Maybe you really could just put them together and get an apparent mind out of it even if you don't really know why it works. There would still be other chemicals you would need to take into consideration, though, like neurotransmitters, so maybe that wouldn't work after all...
Now we get down to the philosophical issues: are we trying to reproduce the FUNCTION of the brain, or the actual human mind? Because I don't think producing matching inputs and outputs necessarily demonstrates that we understanding anything about what the mind is. Mind is kind of a ghost in the machinery, and I'm not sure making a machine that can duplicate human function will still have that "special something" that we call mind.
