Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
To simplify it so a computer science guy can get it, Kurzweil has everything completely wrong. The genome is not the program; it’s the data. The program is the ontogeny of the organism, which is an emergent property of interactions between the regulatory components of the genome and the environment, which uses that data to build species-specific properties of the organism. He doesn’t even comprehend the nature of the problem, and here he is pontificating on magic solutions completely free of facts and reason.
Great summary and interesting read. (Via Pharyngula)
Source: scienceblogs.com
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infoperipeteia reblogged this from dbreunig and added:
I’m very disappointed in Terence Sejnowski for going along with that nonsense. See that sentence I put in red up there?...
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