[fullsend]

The problem is that, like so many of the hard problems these days, we have no clue what makes our own minds let alone any other mind. What’s the real path? If you could have any resources, no moral qualms at all, unlimited time, what’s the step by step process to figure out exactly how the brain and body work?

[jackmott42]

We have clues, we know at a high level how our brain is built, and when we make a vague, mostly wrong copy, it works really well.

[ben_w]

With no ethical constraints and genuinely unlimited time? Easy, just enumerate the effect of all possible 2^(10^14) ways that synapses in a human brain can be selectively disabled, and see what happens.

Faster than that? Aye, there's the rub. Because that is a silly number.

[fullsend]

Hah yes, that could be part of a solution for sure.