From John Pavlus:
How to make a Singularity
Step 1: "I wonder if brains are just like computers?"
Step 2: Add peta-thingies/giga-whatzits; say "Moore's Law!" a lot at conferences
Step 3: ??????
Step 4: SINGULARITY!!!11!one
There are other, perhaps somewhat more serious, rebuttals at Rennie's Last Nerve and A Fistful of Science.
Now run along, little obsessive Kurzweilians, there are many other blogs out there that regard your hero with derision, demanding your earnestly clueless rebuttals.
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Henry Markram, a man who probably knows something about the complexity of the brain says that it's possible to simulate the whole human brain on a computer in 10 years:
Check this 2 Astonishing lectures of Henry Markram:
(watch them in full screen)
1.
http://neuroinformatics2008.org/congress-movies/Henry%20Markram.flv/view
2.
http://ditwww.epfl.ch/cgi-perl/EPFLTV/home.pl?page=start_video&lang=2&connected=0&id=365&video_type=10&win_close=0
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Very interesting article from the âSeedâ magazine:
Part 1:
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/out_of_the_blue
Part 2:
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/out_of_the_blue/P2
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Few more interesting links about this project:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/8012496.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz5IUaRr8No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLCT3wU4fek
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