Kurzweil want to build brain circuits
The futurist Ray Kurzweil believes the human brain derived from the template for more powerful computers can. In an interview with Technology Review (recently at the kiosk or directly in H Shop) said Kurzweil, he founded a new company, to the theories he explains in his new book "How to Create a Mind" to use, technically.
"One of the essential elements of human intelligence is the ability of the neocortex, that the evolutionarily recent part of the cerebral cortex to organize information hierarchically," argues Kurzweil. "The neocortex can ignore facts, then abstract the abstract facts again and so on. This process has to go through the brain to train intelligence ".
An essential element of this information processing Kurzweil "modules" identified in the brain that are responsible for this hierarchical information processing. The neuroscientist Henry Markram, the simulated with his "Blue Brain Project" parts of a rat's brain - its ultimate goal is the simulation of a complete human brain - have shown that the brain's modules, which consist of about 100 neurons whose internal wiring in itself not change over time, says Kurzweil. "The connections between these modules undergo changes greatly when the brain learns. These modules that are analogous to loud Kurzweil hidden Markov models, "are able to recognize patterns. In order to sort these patterns hierarchically, they combine with other modules, "as people do when reading letters to them to form words. In this way, learning the brain, Kurzweil.
Kurzweil, 64, the daily swallows about 150 pills a day in order to experience "the full flowering of the biotechnology revolution", is regarded as something of a personalized faith in progress of Silicon Valley. For more than twenty years ago produced the futurist and inventor books in which he describes what will happen in the next decades to humanity: programmable nanobots in our bloodstream, software downloads for human consciousness - and, finally, the "singularity" , the point at which no meaningful predictions about technological developments are possible.
That the life-prolonging drugs futurologist not only in his books promoted, but they also sold in an online store has, however, brought him severe criticism. When asked whether he had any concerns so that damaging his scientific reputation, Kurzweil responds: "Well, if you" Fantastic Voyage ", you will find approximately 2000 scientific citations. From recognized scientific journals. All we are suggesting is actually quite conservative. We do not recommend controversial agent such as human growth hormone. In short, there are a lot of scientific evidence. But many of my critics have not read the plain. "
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