Archive for August, 2010

Brain Simulation Tactics and Complexity Estimates

Posted in Analysis, Science, Transhumanism, Uploading on August 17th, 2010 by leodirac – 13 Comments

Ray Kurzweil recently predicted that we’d be able to reverse engineer the human brain by 2020.  He makes an argument that a brain simulator would need about a million lines of code:

Here’s how that math works, Kurzweil explains: The design of the brain is in the genome. The human genome has three billion base [...]

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