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Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip?
destinyland writes "Can we imprint the circuitry of the human brain onto a silicon chip? It requires a computational capacity of 36.8 petaflops — a thousand trillion floating point operations per second — but a team of European scientists has already simulated 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections. And their brain-chip is scaleable, with plans to create a superchip mimicking 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. Unfortunately, the human brain has 22 billion neurons and 220 trillion synapses. Just remember Ray Kurzweil's argument: once a machine can achieve a human level of intelligence — it can also exceed it."
They cannot create a soul... they cannot create the spirit of a man. Human arrogance at its height.
Oh, come on now. Can I misquote whatserface whose poem I had to read in the 2nd grade?
Fools like me can build a train
But only God can build a brain
I doubt that anybody will ever build an intelligence based on silicon, but I have no doubt at all that someday we will create life, possibly even intelligent life. But I'm pretty sure it won't be in our lifetimes.
We WILL be able to build a tree, and that one may be achievable in our lifetimes. As I recounted here, my Grandmother was sure Apollo 11 would fail because God would never let us reach the heavens. You're thinking along the same lines here.
And mods, just because he's IMO wrong, it's no troll. I'm sure he believes what he's written, jsut like Grandma believed Apollo 11 would fail. Mod it +1 interesting, or mod it -1 overrated, or don't mod it at all. "Troll" does not mean "I disagree with this post".
Only God (start the flame wars here) can do that.
OK, maybe -1 flamebait.
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