Note the sneaky non sequitur at the end, which of course this being the Discovery Institute was the whole point of the article:
>Maybe it’s worse than they fear. Perhaps the brain doesn’t and can’t operate like a piece of machinery at all. And vice-versa.
Just because the brain may not work like an 'ideal' neural network running in a computer simulation, that doesn't in any way say that it couldn't be duplicated using a non-'ideal' neural network simulation.
It may just mean we need to adjust the form of the simulation.
>Maybe it’s worse than they fear. Perhaps the brain doesn’t and can’t operate like a piece of machinery at all. And vice-versa.
Just because the brain may not work like an 'ideal' neural network running in a computer simulation, that doesn't in any way say that it couldn't be duplicated using a non-'ideal' neural network simulation.
It may just mean we need to adjust the form of the simulation.