From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 16:51:51 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> A molecular simulation is probably utterly beyond us right now, we can
> hardly simulate a single protein, let alone a cell. But I doubt that
> is necessary, if single molecules mattered so much we would be wildly
> unstable for the least disturbance.
Not necessarily. You could have multiple, redundant, averaged-together
computations taking place that still require single-molecule-modelling
to simulate. We lose individual neurons all the time, and no single
neuron is decisive; but I doubt you can simulate the brain without
simulating neurons.
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