[ExI] Strong AI Hypothesis: logically flawed

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:53 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here's the thing for me:  we have 100K enyzmes (most a mystery), scores
> of hormones
>

I am not impressed. Chemicals like that move by diffusion, so  they could
only transfer information at about .01 Meters a second. Light moves at
300,000,000 Meters a second.

> The idea that you could put a brain in a jar, much less a hard drive, and
> feed it all these data to create a thinking and feeling machines that
> function like our own brain, is just way, way beyond my ability to conceive
> of.
>

Your brain is already in a jar,  it's just that the jar is made of bone and
not glass.

  John K Clark
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