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The speaker argues that reproducing human cognition in a computer with sufficient fidelity would require a much better understanding of the brain and body first.

Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026

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“I mean, it's, it's very much putting the cart before the horse. We would need to really have a much better understanding of what's going on up here and in here before we could hope to.”
“uh reproduce it with enough fidelity in a computer and i would also argue that there's no good argument that computers as we currently have them are going to be capable of that kind of thing in the right kind of way even if you subscribe to a kind of functionalism which i'm not sure is correct”
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