[ExI] Fwd: [Body Hacking] Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 16:42:30 UTC 2010


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From: Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Body Hacking] Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely
by 2030, Expert Predicts
To: bodyhacking at lists.caughq.org
Cc: Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>


Um, no?

> Here’s how that math works, Kurzweil explains: The design of the brain is in the genome. The human genome has three billion base pairs or six billion bits, which is about 800 million bytes before compression, he says. Eliminating redundancies and applying loss-less compression, that information can be compressed into about 50 million bytes, according to Kurzweil.
>
> About half of that is the brain, which comes down to 25 million bytes, or a million lines of code.

How does the genome explain protein folding?

Just because a million lines of code describe the genesis of the
brain's biological systems, doesn't mean that we understand the
interactions of the subsequent structures.


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:07 AM, I)ruid wrote:
> > "Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using
> > computers may be just two decades away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial
> > intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity
> > is Near.
>
> Henry Markram thinks he can do it by 2018. He's probably right.
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507




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