Comments on "Reverse-Engineer the Brain"

The thought of one day finding a robot in a lab jacket at a hospital is quite laudable.And a cocktail of artificial intelligence and robotic would definitely transform man's productivity.However i am skeptical of the possibility of replicating human instincts in robots to a large extent because human do not have a perfect understanding of itself and as such, cannot solve it's own non material problems or problems that would arise from such technologies.

We humans learn due to many years of experience. By thousands of instances of trial and errors. But it all starts with one simple idea. The idea is called curiosity.
I think in order to create an artificial intelligence, this is where we should start. By programming curiosity into machines. Writing codes that will tell machines not to stay still and do or learn things.

i do not believe it is wise to put an AI in to someones brain that controls the heart, for fear of the damages. what if the is a malfunction and the person dies? what if some other country figures out a way to destroy the AI killing millions of people in the process? i believe there are to many risks then benefits.

Quantum mechanics does indeed play a role in biological processes. Virtually all of today's computers avoid that randomness however, using high voltage levels to ensure that all detected electron pulses are intentionally sent. Low voltage/energy, high efficiency, slightly innaccurate (on the order of 2% max error, according to the article I heard of them in) computer chips exist, but these are relatively new and not widespread.
Also, as others have mentioned, most computer processors can only do one calculation at a time, though at an incredible speed. The brain does many thousands, even millions, of 'calculations', or neural impulses, simultaneously. True, we are limited to single digits for conscious thoughts/actions, but there are a great many unconscious, automatic processes necessary to keep you alive, functioning, sensing, percieving and processing the flood of sensory input, etc. Each requires the cooperation of many neurons. Very probably conciousness/awareness, and moreover selfawareness/sentience requires constant communication between large numbers of neurons.
As to the question "How close can machines come to human intelligence?", the predicted date for comuputers capable of uploading and/or functioning as the human brain is around 2050. Whether they will be sentient remains to be seen--the physical origins of the "mind" are even less understood than the functions of the "brain."
One more thing: the identifiable storage capacity, or available memory space, of the human brain is about 2 Petabytes, or 2000 TB.

Even the term "systems" fails to take into account that biological communication and specifically neurological effects are many process's and events that happen in an apparent lack of, synchronization of all factors and indeed require different aspects of even methods of communication at each "phase". To simply build a neuron cluster even many of them and connect them as if they are just neuro-chemical's that produce EMF echo's as just artifacts, if we simply approach as neuro-synthetic "circuits" I don't think it is likely to work. System's endure, Organisms adapt, and seem to "love it". You do have at least a 3.5 billion year head start on any of our designed systems...

There is no distinction between HW&SW in the brain. Both the geo-topology of neurons physically change indeed "morph" and thats just for starters. What happens in neuron cluster's may resemble and does look very linear, but evokes change in higher dimension non-linear "areas", to regions to global-brain, by encoded (fractal) ? But with stochastic forcing, this scalable-information may transfer to a very low energy-information "pulse", that may be coded as EMF and "other' carriers of change. This may be a soliton wave that requires almost no energy to maintain all need information charge the "state of the destination" areas. And we haven't gotten into what may be most important about the brains low energy, ultra-redundent nature: quantum information transfer.

Add biological systems self assemble and correct. We have detected quantum events in photosynthesis: tunneling, bi-locality at the minimum. Certainly any real hope for "AI" has got get over the "circuit like view". Take advantage with what biological and abstract thought are based on. It works.

An example of little energy that transfers information is "the wave" we all know at sports stadiums. A trigger of, not energy exchange except as information. And in its own way "the wave" is pleasantly infectious.

Reverse-engineer the brain

The intersection of engineering and neuroscience promises great advances in health care, manufacturing, and communication.

For your information; A brain is part of a body and it did not have any direct access to an environment. By that reason it cannot process any information about causes in the World.
There are no facts for support commonly spread opinion about existence of mental functions.
Modeling of a brain will not provide a clue on how it works because it works in conjunction with a body.
I knew how to develop an artificial subjective system capable to demonstrate an intelligent behavior without wasting funds on such fruitless projects, or spending a billions on the research within the AI paradigm. Semiotics is another example of current research in style, which is based on the misleading assumptions about an functional and meaningful links among the words in a message.
The truce is in the simple conclusions: Meaning is in the behavior of an recipient, not in a message of any kind.
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Best regards, Michael

One of the behaviors of human thinking is its nature of growth and improvement ,in a greatest amount and speed, to fit its environment. Machines are static.They can no longer run than what has been dictated inside them. 10Q.

Thank you for the great information on scieintific breakthroughts. The idea of reverse- engineering the brain is due to be a wonderful achievement, but I believe that scientists may not be looking in the right direction, not learning from the existent, as said in the article. Why don't scientists find a way to preserve the brain, transplant it into a robot, and allow it to continue life from one who is deceased? Yes, this may sound extremely science fictional, but bear with me. Then, introduce the robot with a human-brain to a robot with a minor artificial intelligence wiring system. Allow each to speak to each and let the AI robot learn from the human-brained robot. Yes, the task of supplying blood, oxygen, fluids, and an appropiate skull is tough, but we also thought that uncovering the human genome was impossible. Also, there are rumors floating around that the reverse- engineering of brains has been accomplished in a privately-owned lab here in the US; I cannot wait to hear their findings. To add to my idea, how can you conceptualize the idea of thinking to a machine which must first conceptualize thinking. I am not skeptic of the machine becoming smarter than a creator (human), but smart on its own. I mean as in thinking or acting upon its on thought train. Who knows if a sci-fi re-enactment of I-Robot will occur? But, we must first study the brain much, much more to merely adhere the thought of reverse- engineering the brain to our agenda.

For philosophical reasons, i dont think its possible for a creation to be smarter than its creator.... (don't confuse faster with smarter)

Perhaps it is possible that AI developement can help to improve a numerous variety of fields. Thinking only about the medical field is far too small. The creation of AI robots could lead to a global revolution. It may, one day, be the downfall of our necessary evil, money. Robots can be created to work for our desires, and the science fiction thought that they could take over is absurd. If you view this situation maturely there is no way for that to happen if we were to create them to "our" desire