[MURG] From enticypress Site.

[Joseph M. Graham Jr.]

Hello, murg,

If you have had the chance to view the child-like qualities of artificial intelligence researchers paraded around by television specials on AI you may have the feeling that it is not possible to know how the brain works. After all, those highly credentialed professors are predicting it will take anywhere from 10 to 100 years to understand how the brain works. 
     But you have to understand professors. It is the 10-100 rule. If a person does not know the answer to a question, and no one else does either, it is easy to become credible by making a claim that cannot be disproven. So the 10-100 rule crept into the vernacular. 
     Brain researchers cannot come right out and say they do not have a clue. All the research grants would dry up. They can say they are 'on the verge' or 'making progress' but they always seem to slide in the 10-100 rule. 
     Another thing to know about professors is that if after years of concentration on one specific fallacy or the other agreeing with a totally foreign solution to the same problem means admitting they were wrong and that would dry up research funds faster than admitting they didn't even have a clue. 
     So, what good is it to know? 
     It is very good to know. 
     It not only allows a person to take control of their own brain but it allows the people who know how it works, down to the smallest processing detail, to duplicate a human brain. 
     But that can't happen for at least 10 to 100 years right? 
     Wrong. The people who do not know do not admit someone else might. They only admit they do not YET. 
     Has it already been done? 
     Yes. Numerous times. 
     You will find references at this site to RICCI and COREY (two brain models of very simple complexity). You will NOT find reference to ELIAS. ELIAS is the planned software human brain interfacing with the Internet where every person with an account is an input pathway of its own. You will NOT find reference to the main goal, that of building a human level, fully self-aware, seeing and hearing brain with head, arms, hands and all of the muscle and joint parts needed to make it work (yes, those have been completed as well but not published, obviously). 
     SO what is holding it up? 
     HA! The same thing that keeps silly scientists doing silly things in silly experiments with silly investors and silly results and silly claims and silly papers: money. 
     Yes, money. 
     This technology is over 10 years old. The knowledge of how the brain works, how to wire an artificial brain and how to build a completely intelligent artificial life android has been held for about 9 years. Patents were filed for the dynamic system, the muscle and joint structures and the nervous system wiring schematics. 
     A group of interested persons came together a number of years ago and created Neutronics Technologies Corporation , which had the patent applications assigned to it. That company, with the aid of an anonymous benefactor built RICCI, proved the dynamic system, discovered 'dark energy', replicated 'dark energy' and room temperature quantum computation and built the hardware to prove it. 
     Then the money ran out. The technology was dormant for a few years until Mediais Corporation was formed to use the technology in different fields since science was never going to admit it was wrong about anything unless the person doing the teaching was a 'professor'. 
     Quite a few useless attempts were made to offer investors the chance to utilize the technology in things like credit card security, software downloads, music and movie piracy, process flow and other things, infinite encryption as well and the presentations were met with objection from venture capitalists because it just was not possible (this was pre-bubble time) to believe that a fantastic technology could be accomplished for so little cash. 
     The original estimate to build a human level android (upper torso, head, neck, arms, hands, eyes, ears, mouth) was just a bit over 6 million dollars and two -three years. They were searching for investments that took 50 milllion dollars or more to reach a market dominance and most lost their shirts to yesterday's 'big thing'.


Best regards. 

Joseph M. Graham Jr.
jmgj2 at netzero.com
2003-09-17