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by dwaltrip 3488 days ago
Brain emulation? I didn't realize people seriously thought that could be good for anything other than research and investigation.

If we can successfully emulate the brain, it seems we would have necessarily acquired the knowledge needed to build models that are very powerful without having to exactly mimic the brain.

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See Hanson's http://ageofem.com/
I keep hearing great things about that book. Thanks for the link, maybe it is time to pick up a copy.