[TaylorAlexander]

While I can’t predict that we can solve intelligence completely any time soon, I would argue that machine intelligence allows us to examine the phenomena of intelligence more thoroughly than anything else in the past.

I would expect this to yield new insights. So at a minimum, I’d think we can learn more now than we have been able to before. Maybe that will lead to a great increase in understanding of intelligence or a slight one, but it will lead to an increase in our understanding of the phenomena.

[oldandtired]

The only insights will be related to what insights we get about the programming we are doing with machines. It is an entirely different order to providing insights into even the simplest of organic neurological systems.

Computer simulations can give insight into simple systems like water flows, etc. Simulating more complex systems like a single living cells or any system built on livings cells would require systems that would not really be worth building. It would be simpler to use cells directly.