An extract from a one on one con­ver­sa­tion I had a few weeks ago: Let me finish yesterday’s argu­ment about art, since I know you’ll appre­ciate the alter­na­tive view. I’ll get qui­ckly to the point, but let’s begin by unders­tan­ding what is the brain itself and how it works. The brain is the only mas­si­vely para­llel (100 billion para­llel pro­ces­sing units, with even more para­llel elec­tri­cal and che­mi­cal pro­ces­ses hap­pe­ning inside each neu­ron all the time) com­pu­ting tool at our dis­po­sal. Our best expe­ri­men­tal efforts to date to imi­tate it are gene­ral models of ani­mal brains that are already orders of magnitude […]