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Arguably, you'd need to simulate tens of billions of neurons in order to achieve human-level intelligence. So, even if you'd have correctly simulated a single neuron, there's still a lot to cover to achieve human-level AI. And even then. The few unfortunate cases where a human child has been reared outside of the normal environment (see Genie), having a human brain has turned out not to be enough to have intelligence that would be recognized as 'human-level'. So, apart from the simulated brain itself, you'd need to devise an appropriate training environment to use for training said brain to achieve human-level intelligence. Which would be a formidable feat in and of itself.


Sensations cannot be produced, no matter how many neurons you simulate.

We can only model certain phenomena we deem important, but who can really say?

I'm happy with "less than human" simulations, in fact, I'd be disgusted with a perfect human simulation -- if they help us automate/solve problems.




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