What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?

  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    21 days ago

    Brains are made of matter that obeys the laws of physics. I don’t see why that same function couldn’t be performed in silicon. I wouldn’t say our current systems can think in the sense that people understand the term, but I see no reason to assume they couldn’t in the future - or that thinking is reserved only for wet meat computers.

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      21 days ago

      I don’t really see how you could make a brain out of silicone, because thought a product of cells. The cells send signals to each other, and that’s how you get thought. You could maybe grow a brain in a lab, but I don’t see how a plastic replication would work. And even if you did grow one in a lab, who knows how not being connected to a body would impact its ability to develop thought.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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        21 days ago

        well theoretically with a computer powerful enough, one can simulate all the brain cells and effectively emulate the whole brain