Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Artificial Intelligence Update

DARPA is now attempting to prove that "the human mind is nothing more than parts and energy. In other words, all brain activities — reasoning, emoting, processing sights and smells — derive from physical mechanisms at work, acting according to the principles of “thermodynamics in open systems.”"

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/darpa-heat-energy-brains-now-make-us-some/

I disagree that it's "spooky," but perhaps it is to some.

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