Food for thought - AI

[Evilgoat76]

OK, warning, medical/science content past this point

I have been reading about something called BlueBrain today, I know people involved in the feild and I was posed these questions today.

BlueBrain is modelling something called Cortical colums. These are the functional units of a brain. Each of these consists of 10,000 - 50,000 brain cells (nurons) and in just 2mm long. Diameter wise we are talking fractions of a mm. BlueBrain uses an IBM supercomputer that lives ina specially designed room, full server room setup and can emulate just 1 of these right now. Aint that lump of goo behind your eyes great?

Now the question relates to the next step. by 2015/2020 they think they will be able to functionally model a whole human brain. By this he means a complete human brain, concious, self aware and by any definition, alive.

So

Do you then loose the right to turn it off/stop the simulation? Is turning it off murder as in theory thats the death of a concious entity?

What happens if you 'suspend' the simulation, does the entity experience this as death, sleep or frozen time?

If itsasimulation of a human brain, is it human? What defines a human?

All good questions, curious to see what you guys make of it. The scary thing is these questions will need to be answered in our life time.

[Flat on my back]

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Depends on what level you want to describe 'a human', at the consicious level as tissue or the atomic level...

The same but different, only by construction.

[Tonks4x4]

I think let them get on with it. There are tooooooooooo !!!!!! many do gooders in the world today. This type of thing is progress.....

200 years ago they were cutting open the chests of pigeons and binding them to the feet of kings to draw out disease.... Look how far we have come along now. Political correctness is holding up the progression of technology.

[goodall]

its like terminator, as long bluebrian aint got internet we can kill it other wise never get rid for educate its self in seconds if could surely and transfer its self anywhere

as turning it off, as long you consider it similar to an animal that no one will look after yea ok put it down

[Error404]

I've always thought that if you created it you sould be able to finish it off when you've had enough - that goes for kids too