[mindcrime]

Right. Because if a carbon based / biological machine like a human can be an AGI, what reason - in principle - is there to say that the same can't be done with a different (perhaps silicon centric) machine? To suggest otherwise feels, to me, like indulging in a form of mysticism which holds up human life as something being "beyond" science.

[yellowapple]

Or, at the very least, that we can't artificially create a carbon-based machine capable of general intelligence?

Like, even if there's something magical about neurons that can't be replicated through conventional electronics, we could certainly put a bunch of actual neurons in chips and use those instead.

[hobofan]

I'm wondering if that's just the philosophers form of thinking "there is no way a machine could ever do my job" which exists in virtually all professions.