[djchapm]

Was just reading (for couple hours now) the various forum posts - love this forum.  One idea out there is the idea of being able to create true artificial intelligence by coding something that is a replica of the brain - neurons, synapses, connections, and interactions thereof....

My thought was - is this similar to someone thinking the can recreate a computer by looking at the circuitry, discs, mem, controllers, bus/bridge, etc - and lets say code up a perfect model of all that interacting hardware using the language of choice, and think the results would allow something like Windows 10 to start functioning?  Coding the simulation of all that hardware would be an unbelievable task. 

Lol.  Just a thought.  I can't imagine tackling that.  Though I guess given enough time and hardware at least we know that can be done.  I'll build the OR gate module and you guys build the rest.

DJ

[infurl]

Coding the simulation of all that hardware would be an unbelievable task.

That's how hardware is designed in the first place. Hardware is designed using hardware programming languages and compiled into circuit boards and systems. Even processors themselves are mostly software. What you think of as a CPU is actually running microcode which is software that exists at an even lower level than assembly language. Designing hardware without simulating it first would be an impossible task.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL

[djchapm]

Yep - but to complete the analogy - do this only with an X-Ray and some black box analysis.

[keghn]

 A AGI build it own  simulator as i grows. At First. A one inch cube, volume. Just the area where it fingers are, and then
expanse it as it grows. That after it has master this volume by trial and error.