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The Ethics of Creating Consciousness, Boston NPR News source
 









Excerpts: Next month, IBM is set to activate the most ambitious simulation of a
human brain yet conceived. It's a model they say is accurate down to the
molecule. No one claims the "Blue Brain" project will be self-aware. But this
project, and others like it, use electrical patterns in a silicon brain to
simulate the electrical patterns in the human brain -- patterns which are
intimately linked to thought. But if computer programs start generating these
patterns -- these electrical "thoughts" -- then what separates us from them?
Source: The Ethics of Creating Consciousness[
http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2005/06/20050613_b_main.asp ], Dick Gordon,
The Connection, Boston NPR News source, 05/06/13
AUDIO - Guests: Marvin Minsky, Brian Cantwell Smith, Paul Davies[
http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/connection/audio/2005/06/con_0613b.rm
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