The Software Programs That Make Our Body

Although I'm Not Prepared To Move Up My Prediction Of A Computer Passing The Turing Test By 2029, The Progress That Has Been Achieved In Systems Like Watson Should Give Anyone Substantial Confidence That The Advent Of Turing-level Ai Is Close At Hand. If One Were To Create A Version Of Watson That Was Optimized For The Turing Test, It Would Probably Come Pretty Close.

My View Is That Consciousness, The Seat Of "personalness," Is The Ultimate Reality, And Is Also Scientifically Impenetrable. In Other Words, There Is No Scientific Test One Can Postulate That Would Definitively Prove Its Existence In Another Entity. We Assume That Other Biological Human Persons, At Least Those Who Are At Least Acting Conscious, Are Indeed Conscious. But This Too Is An Assumption, And This Shared Human Consensus Breaks Down When We Go Beyond Human Experience (e.g., The Debate On Animal Consciousness, And By Extension Animal Rights).

What We Found Was That Rather Than Being Haphazardly Arranged Or Independent Pathways, We Find That All Of The Pathways Of The Brain Taken Together Fit Together In A Single Exceedingly Simple Structure. They Basically Look Like A Cube. They Basically Run In Three Perpendicular Directions, And In Each One Of Those Three Directions The Pathways Are Highly Parallel To Each Other And Arranged In Arrays. So, Instead Of Independent Spaghettis, We See That The Connectivity Of The Brain Is, In A Sense, A Single Coherent Structure.

Biological Evolution Is Too Slow For The Human Species. Over The Next Few Decades, It's Going To Be Left In The Dust.

Biology Is A Software Process. Our Bodies Are Made Up Of Trillions Of Cells, Each Governed By This Process. You And I Are Walking Around With Outdated Software Running In Our Bodies, Which Evolved In A Very Different Era.