Posted: Aug 04, 2017 12:26 pm
GrahamH wrote:...
David went on about emotions be required for decision making, but that seemed to come down to more of a tie-breaker.
None of which could not, in principle, be performed by a machine.
I think the operative term there is "in principle".
I think it is a combination of sheer complexity (in terms of the number of thalamo-cortical loops available) and the role of hormones that make human decision-making different from anything machines can do. There is a point where quantity becomes quality. Thus, machines won't be able to mimic humans accurately any time soon, especially as the complexity of computers is no longer increasing on an exponential scale - the technology is becoming mature.