(January 17, 2014 at 3:46 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: Neither of them are knowledge. True, a computer full of transistors and electrical wiring is more complex than a single light switch, but they are both just electrons and motion. Computers do not know things, they just move electrons around. This is why a sentient robot/computer is impossible.
The brain is governed by electrical impulses; the mind is not. The brain may be the connection between the mind and the body, but it also only moves electrons around. The mind knows things; electrons and motion are not knowledge. So the brain is not the mind.
All of the evidence points to the mind being an emergent property of the brain; that it cannot exist without the brain.
As for Strong AI, we don't know that is not possible. It is very probably possible.
You have made assertions for which you have provided no evidence or even rationale.
I suggest you read The Mind's I by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett for a perspective on this subject.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
