WMUH 2018 Henry Markram

"What Makes Us Human: From Genes to Machines", June 2018, Jerusalem:
Will Computers become as Capable as the Brain?
Henry Markram, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
The brain is a multi-dimensional processing system with an infinite number of loops within loops of interactions in networks of genes, proteins and cells. It is this system that interacts with an analogous multi-dimensional world made up of networks of people, societies, and species. Our perceptions, movements, and feelings emerge as chemical, electrical and mechanical chain reactions explode and weave through these networks. It is this dance of the networks that merges and blurs the boundaries within ourselves, between ourselves, and between ourselves and the world. There is no scientific evidence that we can ignore any of these loops within loops of interactions when attempting to build a computer that can dance with the world the way a human, bird or ant does. To capture the brain’s full capability of motions, emotions and the consciousness of it all, we have to simulate every single interaction. Computers will therefore asymptotically approach the brain’s capability as we increase the digital discretization of these interactions; how small the discretization needs to be is what will frustrate, haunt and eventually drive Homo Deus mad.

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This guy is totally mad.

[@davidthemaggot]

This is great, but wtf was that at the 6th minute mark? Lol it lasted for a whole minute

[@uaps28]

Oh, it's great to see another presentation by Henry Markram. I have not him on YT for a while

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Our new Josef Mengele.

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