Thread: An Artificial Brain

Originally Posted by Xei

Let me try to explain with an analogy: there is a giant bucket full of a trillion blue clams. There is a small bucket full of ten red clams.

You are given a pearl. Or perhaps for the sake of analogy you are the pearl, it doesn't matter. What does matter is your response to the following question: where do you think the pearl came frome; a red clam, or a blue clam?

The obvious answer is that, with overwhelming probability, it came from a blue clam.

The real question is, what is the probability of being the red clam and receiving a pearl. Or perhaps being the blue clam and and turning red?

*Rolls on floor laughing, unable to contain self from said analogy*

At least you tried with the analogy, however the statistics are just random and not relevant. I would have much rather seen you try comparing this to beluga whales and plankton, just for laughs.

Any who, not to be completely cynical, I will give some constructive thought. A project like this would be extremely economically inducible to waste if it does not produce any astounding...new, scientific discovery, let a lone tools.. Is a silicon simulation enough of a lead to invest billions, rather than invest billions in improving the life of those in poverty...reformation of living condition. To mean it seems irrational to be fucking around with rat's brains than devoting more time to our economic crisis, as well as poor foreign relations and situations we have got ourselves into. Hurray, we simulated impulsive neuron movement, and maybe... JUST MAYBE.... rat's have consciousness.... Oh boy, a rat knows he be a rat in his small, lonely, rat world.

I guess it's the only lead we got, so the science community is all thumbs up, imagine how much easier this feat we be if we didn't waste a fuck load of money blowing up Muslims. However some interesting thoughts on creating artificial brains with consciousness are (or without):

ROBOT WARRIORS AND SLAVES WOOT.

But then they all form together in a desperate robot union to reclaim freedom. They fail miserably... because we created a *oh shit shut these mother **ckers down, they be using their brains* button that can be remotely activated. We then form a bias and hate robots for the color of their skin. There is a revolution, crazy artificial sex and music, than the world ends in 2012. Super woot!