I am not a Luddite, but I can't grasp that biological intelligence can not only be replicated but exceeded by machine intelligence. Granted, there will come a time when machine intelligence can exceed humans in 99% of our observable mental functions.
How is much of this possible? What Kurzweil cites as reverse engineering of the brain. While that may replicate our intelligence in its emotional context, could it developed in a non biological entity?
While we may be, as one Zen Master would have it, not really selves but bundles of habits, still there is at least the possibility of change, the motive toward which is derived from emotion, imagination, etc. William James cites approvingly in his Principles a quote from Shadworth Hodgson which basically states that when he looks at his own consciousness, he may or may not find thoughts, but certainly finds a stream of emotions.
What I would like to find out is the intimate connection between emotion and discovery. I would predict that a reverse engineered brain in a machine would eventually become totally predictable in its responses to situations.
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