Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Elon Musk: I'll Put a Man on Mars in 10 Years" video.

  1. Technologies like Watson and Google Glass combined will enable very power intelligence amplification systems. So a 15 year old will being performing mathematics at the level of a Phd student.
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  2. Pain is a warning and defense mechanism even animals have this. Pain is also subjective as some people cannot feel pain. It is obvious you cannot prove any of what you talk about.
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  3. The technology that will allow us to live on mars will also be the technology that will transform our civilization. The things I talk of are nanotechnology, computing, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, energy abundance and space travel. Humans do not use 98% of the space on earth nor do we even use the oceans at present. Education and material abundance will get rid of the slums. Mars and the moon will probably be our first engineered space habitats. Its a brave new solar system.
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  4. It will more than likely occur in the 2020s. When there will be super computers that will have the power and the human brain will have been studied in enough detail for computer architecture to be constructed in a fashion that will allow brain computer simulation. The future is much closer than what people realize. We are now only starting to touch the surface of the concept of quantum computing and that will be truly revolutionary and the human brain will be tiny in comparison.
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  5. What if you construct a machine that is an exact replica of the body with nerves and also with nanotechnology cells that are an exact replica even down to genetics. Will that machine be able to feel pain.
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  6. Are you claiming that pain is not part of the nervous system. Yes or no.
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  7. $50k is a start why be pessimistic when 20 years ago most of this would have been considered Science fiction. We will have the capabilities in 10 years to go to mars but will we is another question.
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  8. Computing power is growing exponentially so by the time we reach the mid 2020s computing power will be more than what is required to do a human brain level simulation. A fruit fly simulation was not possible 20 years ago and neither was parts of the human brain. I remember 15 years ago that people said an insect brain could not be done and when it was point out that by 2010 there would be the computing power people did not believe this. This also applied to the human genome.
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  9. I am assuming that you mean we have not dealt with all of mankinds problems. The type of science and technology that will take us to mars will also help us on earth.
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  10. Spiritual? That is just mystical and holds no scientific value what so ever. Human consciousness is derived from electrical activity in the brain just as a worm has neural electro-activity in clusters. Pain is a chemical reaction in the brain and people who lack this chemical reaction can some times not feel pain. So are those types of people any less human in your eyes.
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