(October 4, 2013 at 4:40 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: But you're saying you know more than neuroscientists and philosophers. Sounds like atheist bullshit to me. But I'm willing to hear you out on your level of expertise in the matter.
Tell me why you think your view of abstraction layers is more accurate than the current views in these fields.
I never said I know any of this stuff.... But I may be aware of a point of view that they may not follow too easily, because... let's face it... if you can follow something related to computer science, you don't get a degree in philosophy.

Mankind is building machines in the hopes that they will, one day, mimic a real human... I've pointed out a wiki article about artificial consciousness, now, one on robots and their learning:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...-learning/
Current work is still a bit rudimentary, but it is picking up pace. I find it may be quite easy for a sufficiently complex machine to acquire consciousness similar to humans.
People are even incorporating emotions into their artificial neural networks...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/fi...ch122.html