Slashdot Mirror
Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain
jamie writes "There he goes again, making up nonsense and making ridiculous claims that have no relationship to reality. Ray Kurzweil must be able to spin out a good line of bafflegab, because he seems to have the tech media convinced..."
Rob Malda sucked my smegma-encrusted dick last night. Afterwards, I fucked his wife (not bareback though as she fucks a lot of niggers).
The singularity is to nerds what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant wackjobs....
After one reads an article about the infinite complexity of the human brain, one has to wonder if the fundamentalist protestants (people who believe that we had to have been created due to the immense complexity of even the tiniest cell) are the whackjobs, as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again. Darwin made the same basic mistake as Ray Kurzweil, he made assumptions about how simple things are (e.g. the "simple" cell).
>>>that's what software is - virtual reconfiguration of the computer, on the fly
Really? So I can upgrade my C64 from 160x200 to 1280x1020 resolution, if I just type in the right software? Wow. ..... Okay obviously I disagree with you, and I weill stick to my original comment: A computer is limited by its hardware. It's fixed; the circuit does not change. A brain is not..... it can learn new things and change it connections.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Its design not "it's design."
If you're telling me you're an authority on this topic, you should be able to speak English well enough not to make these basic errors.
Further, you're making a semantic argument: "encoded in the genome" versus "a result of the emergent reactions caused by what's encoded in the genome" is a trivial distinction.
This isn't the first time P.Z. Myers has convinced me he's incompetent. His political columns are even more chock-full of grammatical and logical errors, including blatant logical fallacies.
Futurist Traditionalism
I don't know who told you chi was "spiritual energy" but I'm pretty sure one of the certified professional practitioners did not.
Again, I cite the journal from BMJ Group, a publisher that only publishes serious, evidence-based scientific journals, called "Acupuncture in Medicine". You will not see claims of "spiritual energy" therein.
Although you'll see chiropractors offering acupuncture, you'll never see the opposite. Don't judge one by the other.
You are welcome on my lawn.