Accelerating Future » Al Fin: Neither Ray Kurzweil nor PZ Myers Understand the Brain

I suspect (and pray?) that the people that will have an edge designing artificial consciousness are the ones that have deeply explored their own.

Accelerating Future » Al Fin: Neither Ray Kurzweil nor PZ Myers Understand the Brain.

In other words, Ray Kurzweil expects humans to build a brain-functional machine in the next 2 decades based largely upon concepts learned from studying how brains/minds think.