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.
More like this
Jay Rosen tweets:
Step 1. Spend all of your start-up money. Or not.
Step 1. Replace Argentine Ants with Fire Ants.
Isis and Phys
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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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