The brain is a system where what it does cannot be cleanly separated from what it is: neuronal firing communicates with other neurons but also removes metabolic waste; replicating all this in silicon is physically impossible, analogous to trying to build the Brooklyn Bridge out of string cheese.
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“the brain is is the kind of system where you can't cleanly separate what it does from what it is now sometimes a neuron fires it's not to communicate with other neurons it's to get rid of metabolic waste products so if you're going to get a model neuron that that does that you have to to then not only replace all the neurons and connections but all the stuff all the metabolism that's going on underneath as well...just as it's not possible to like build a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge out of string cheese you just you just can't do it”
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