>>Why do we have to simulate real neurons to achieve intelligence? We don't simulate a bird's bones and muscles to achieve flight.
Is this.....a reference to Greg Egan's Permutation City? Because that was the exact argument some characters used against real AGI(which let's assume they had, it's a Sci-Fi book). Basically it went along the lines of "even though we can simulate digestion at molecular level, nothing is actually digested. Why should simulating neuron activity create actual thoughts and intelligence?"
Is this.....a reference to Greg Egan's Permutation City? Because that was the exact argument some characters used against real AGI(which let's assume they had, it's a Sci-Fi book). Basically it went along the lines of "even though we can simulate digestion at molecular level, nothing is actually digested. Why should simulating neuron activity create actual thoughts and intelligence?"