Filmmaker Noah Hutton is making a 10-year documentary of the Blue Brain Project (see Reverse-engineer the brain to build it). Watch the introduction of the project in which Henry Markram aims to reverse engineer an entire human brain, neuron for neuron (vimeo.com).
It seems, it is not a specific region (or regions) of the brain but more how efficiently wired specific brain areas make up what is called “general intelligence”. Read more on how the connections between very specific areas of the brain that determine intelligence and even how well someone does in life (businessweek.com).
Watch Hod Lipson talk about “Adaptive and Self-Reflective Systems”. Hod Lipson demonstrates several experiments in self reflecting robotic systems and argues that reflective processes are essential in achieving meta-cognitive capacities.
While we are wondering if machines can think about themselves, why not watch Michael Anissimov who tells us not to fear the Singularity – and why not.
(via vimeo.com)