<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><br>I am the equivalent of a first grader in this discussion, but what about this?</span><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">If we knew exactly what we wanted a computer program to do, it would be easy to write the code, correct?</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">If we wanted to model AI on the brain here's what we face:</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Just
recently glial cells have been found to not only supply neurons with
nutrition and serve as the blood brain barrier, but actually affect the
functioning of them. We have no idea how or why now. Given that there
are 100 billion neurons with up to 25K connections and up to 5 trillion
glial cells, it will be a very long time, maybe never, before we can
begin to understand just what is going on up there except in a fairly
general way.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">So
when we say that we want a computer to think or create we are going to
have to specify exactly what we mean (operational definitions in my
terminology), because trying to model the code on brain activity is a
dead end. (Trivia: I have seen three streets named Hemlock and all of
them have been dead ends.)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Also,
calling it intelligence or creativity may in fact hinder the efforts
because we are still undecided what they are, especially the latter.
Why not just figure out what you want the computer to do and program it?</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w</span></p></div></div></div>