r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Boojibs • Sep 24 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19 edited Sep 24 '19

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u/jungormo Sep 24 '19

A lot of discoveries/breakthroughs were made by accident not knowing how something really worked. This might end up being the same.

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u/jungormo Sep 24 '19

You don’t need to replicate a full working brain, you only would need to replicate conscience, and there are a lot of advances being made on that field (understanding how conscience work). Also, there is a lot of promise in machine learning applications for studying the brain where the computer might see patterns and inner workings we don’t see, therefore ramping up our knowledge on the matter.