<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2011 15:18, Richard Loosemore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpwl@lightlink.com">rpwl@lightlink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
My own, more general answer to the issue of AGI via brain emulation is that, as you are suggesting, the modeling of the human mind/brain is likely to be the first successful AGI<br></blockquote></div><br>I am inclined to agree, only I think that the modeling of *a* human brain is likely to be the first successful AGI.<br>
<br>I suspect that unless the full product of a given ontogenetic development is replicated, a generic high-level copy of a human brain would not do much.<br><br>Of course, OTOH, if we were to go down to a molecular level, all the relevant information contained in the original would be included.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>