[extropy-chat] Re: [wta-talk] Why the Spike did not happen

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Sun Dec 4 10:42:11 UTC 2005


On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 07:28:05AM +0100, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

> For example, even with computers with more
> processing capacity than the human brain, they don't have yet anything

Let's say I have a computer with more processing capacity
than a human brain in the volume of a sugar cube (cm^3).
A m^3 gives me 10^6 that. Surely a factor of a mere million is going
to make a tiny, very minor, insignificant little difference?

And, surely, a cubic mile of the same is going to make a bit
more of the same? How about a planet's volume, as a circumsolar
computronium cloud?

Even if things scale linearly (I don't think intelligence scales
linearly with the processing volume, at least for small volumes)
there is a lot of headroom by just adding more processing volume.

> resembling a human intelligence embodied in a machine. The Searle argument
> is quoted.

Searle has catched himself in a trap of his own making, just
as the qualia crowd.

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