Stephen Downes

I think that the human brain could be modelled with relatively few lines of computer code (certainly far fewer than a million) but that the resulting program would have to be run in a stimulating environment in order to learn as humans do. Richard Nantel links to the goods: "Dr. Kurzweil's original post is here. Dr. Myer's response is here. Dr. Kurzweil's reply to Dr. Myer's response is here."