There is no path to it? That's a bold claim. Are brains imbued with special brain-magic that makes them more than, at rock bottom, a bunch of bog-standard chemical and electrical and thermal reactions?
It seems very obviously fundamentally solvable, though I agree it is nowhere in the near future.
This seems like a misreading - there's also no real path to P-NP or to disentangling the true chemical origins of life. OP didn't say it was impossible. The problem is we don't know very much about intelligence in animals generally, and even less about intelligence in humans. In particular, we know far less about intelligence than we do computational complexity or early forms of life.
Those seem like silly analogies. There are billions of brains on the planet, humans can grow them inside themselves (pregnancy). Don’t get me wrong, it’s a hard problem, they just seem like different classes of problems.
I could see P=NP being impossible to prove but I find it hard to believe intelligence is impossible to figure out. Heck if you said it’d take us 100 years I would still think that’s a bit much.
Yes, sorry, but it still could be impossibly hard for a long time. A lot of things happen in nature all the time we cannot do and have no (practical) path to doing them.
I think it'll take much longer than 100 years. The "limiting factor" here is cognitive science experiments on smart animals like rats and pigeons, and less smart animals like spiders and lampreys, all of which will help us understand what intelligence truly is. These experiments take time and resources.
> Are brains imbued with special brain-magic that makes them more than, at rock bottom, a bunch of bog-standard chemical and electrical and thermal reactions?
Some have made this argument (quantum effects, external fields, etc.).
If any of these are proven to be true then we are looking at a completely different roadmap.
I’m saying to whatever extent they occur, they are just quantum interactions. There’s a path to reproducing them with engineering.
It’s odd to say “reproduce quantum interactions” but remember to the extent they exist in the brain, they also behave as finicky/noisy quantum interactions. They’re not special brain quantum things.
It seems very obviously fundamentally solvable, though I agree it is nowhere in the near future.