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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefano Vaj<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Wrestling with Embodiment<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 24 January 2012 00:30, Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>></span>But much of biological cognition is strongly hardware dependent<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:black'>“</span>I am quite skeptical as the existence of forms of cognition, or any other information processing for that matter, that would be "hardware dependent" at all.<br><br><span style='color:black'>“</span>The real question remains however of what kind of performance hit you are going to suffer by running some of, or all, the relevant routines on "hardware" which can be much, much less optimised to do so.<br><br><span style='color:black'>“</span>This is why, BTW, in spite of steampunk fantasies to the contrary we do not seriously consider the development of AGIs on punch-card machines.<br><br><span style='color:black'>I have to say I agree Stefano. And I am surprised that Andes does not include, on some level, chemistry since he is a neuroscientist. In fact, Margulis + Sandberg AGI model might be fascinating.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Natasha<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>