| >In fact I conjecture it's physically and metaphysically impossible. That's crazy. Human brains were created by nothing more than random mutations and selection. A very stupid algorithm created the most intelligent thing that currently exists. Humans are a thousand times smarter than evolution. We can invent things evolution never could. And now humans are learning about how our own brains work through studying them, and also how to build intelligent algorithms ourselves. And we are doing it much faster than evolution did (10's of years vs millions.) >the barber's paradox where you're expecting a system to understand itself completely using its own system. I don't see how this is a paradox. There's no reason a system can't understand itself. The algorithms in your brain are probably much simpler than the amount of space your brain has to store information. >Bio-like systems may turn out to be more efficient than silicon Silicon is already vastly more efficient. Transistors can be the width of atoms, while synapses are the widths of many molecules. Neurons have to maintain all the machinery necessary for life and self replication. They use slow and inefficient chemical signals and reactions. Etc, etc. |