What's stopping us from making a physics simulator simulate

What you're thinking of are artificial neural networks, it exists

Consciousness arises from unexplained quantum effects which we can't attempt to simulate unless P=NP or we create a generalized quantum computer large enough.

>>8801151
Because the properties of consciousness are emergent and are not reducible to physics. Reductionism is the pipe dream of physicists. Until we have good models for the interactions of neurons, we cannot hope to simulate a brain.

The brain uses quantum mechanics, which can't be simulated classically.

>>8801166
>>8801196
>muh quantum consciousness
pls be bait

>>8801151
A combination of not enough processing power yet and the brain itself still being poorly understood.

>>8801151
>What's stopping us from making a...
Hardware not powerful enough.
>Would quantum processors help.
No, there are only a few quantum algorithms that run better than a classical one and they are mostly related to cryptography and quantum simulations. Coming up with efficient
algorithms is actually extremely hard.
>>8801191
>>8801166
wtf does that even mean ?!

>>8801191
>the properties of consciousness are emergent and are not reducible to physics

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

>>8801151
I remember reading about a simulation of a single cell, and even that was terribly complex and took forever to run.

>>8801196
bullshit, we have no quantum processes going on in our brains.

>>8801151

Our brain is not a seperate entity, what you mean is simulation of a human. Now what do humans do?

- sleep, breed, die
- communicate, organise, adapt to their surroundings to ensure survival
- create art, technology, recreational activities
- accumulate their experience and pass it on to the next generation

Im pretty sure that, given enough computational power and formulating the right set of rules, you could create robots / simulate beings which actions would be indestinguishable of human behavior. And you would not know if they posessed consciousness or not.

There's a project called Openworm trying to simulate C. Elegans. The entire fucker has roughly a thousand cells. The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. I think this illustrates the scale of the problem.

>>8801221
sup reddit, don't blame you for wanting to think you'll only live your shitty existence once. Death is probably a peace to you huh?

>>8801151
too intelligent to be simulated desu

>>8801394
anon doesn't know the distinction between reductionism and emergentism.

>>8801158
You know nothing. Shut up.

Because there are more atoms in the brain than all the computers in the world together can simulate perfectly. Also, we don;t know the structure.