{"id":194,"date":"2025-07-25T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:40:07","slug":"why-attempts-to-build-supercomputer-brains-will-never-come-close-to-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/why-attempts-to-build-supercomputer-brains-will-never-come-close-to-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why attempts to build supercomputer brains won’t work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Various advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are\u00a0working towards\u00a0building\u00a0a\u00a0conscious supercomputer machine. These artificial intelligence projects are based on the idea that brain functions merely\u00a0encode and process multisensory inputs. It is believed that once brain functions are properly understood, it would be possible to code them into a computer machine. Microsoft Inc. recently announced that it is willing to\u00a0spend US$1 billion on a project\u00a0to do just that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, attempts to build supercomputer<\/strong> brains<\/strong> have not even come close to the real thing. A\u00a0multi-billion-dollar European project\u00a0that was started in 2013 is now\u00a0largely believed to have failed. That effort has now shifted to develop new software tools for scientists to help them study brain data, rather than simulating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some scientists and researchers continue to say that\u00a0simulating neuroscience with computer<\/strong> systems<\/strong>\u00a0will result in a great future.\u00a0The argument starts here – brains integrate and compress multiple components of an experience, including vision and smell, which simply can’t be handled in any way by computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brains do not work like computer systems<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All the living organisms on this planet store experiences in their brains by\u00a0adapting neural connections\u00a0in an\u00a0active process between the subject and the environment. A computer system<\/strong> records data in short-term and long-term memory blocks. That difference means the human brain’s information handling process must also be different from how computer systems handle it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mind continuously explores the environment to\nfind objects that guide the performance of one action or another. Perception is\nnot directly related to the sensory data. The human being can identify a desk\nor a chair from various angles, without having to interpret the data and then refer\nto its memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Computation\nand awareness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have\nhighlighted some additional reasons that consciousness is something that\nis not computable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conscious human being is aware of what he is thinking. The person even has the ability to stop thinking about one thing and start thinking about another, no matter where he was in the initial stage of thought. This is something impossible for a computer machine to do. Around 80 years ago, a pioneer British scientist Alan Turing showed that there was no way ever to prove that any particular\u00a0computer program could abort on its own, and yet that ability is central to consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan\nTuring\u2019s argument is based on a trick of logic in which he creates an inherent\ncontradiction: Imagine there was a general process that could\ndetermine whether any program it analyzed would abort or not. The output of that\ngeneral process would be either “yes, it will stop” or “no, it\nwon’t stop. Pretty straightforward it is! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are\u00a0working towards\u00a0building\u00a0a\u00a0conscious supercomputer machine. These artificial intelligence projects are based on the idea that brain functions merely\u00a0encode and process multisensory inputs. It is believed that once brain functions are properly understood, it would be possible to code them into a computer machine. Microsoft Inc. recently announced that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}