artificial brain

interesting, but science has many approaches on consiousness at the moment, and the artificial intelligence lab of university of zurich where I did my internship has a philosophy that thinks this approach as foolish (we dont yet understand the brain of an ant, so lets understand the brain of a human). I would agree with them. simulation of neuron systems might explain better how the brain grows and interconnects, but wont tell anything about consiousness, since consiousness can only be understood in connection to the body it resides in. without body as an interface to engage with its environment, no consiousnesss will arise. a grown consiousness inside a body placed inside a computer would withier away like a plant without water and air. imagin yourself being paralised and unable to communicate with your environment. you might turn into a very wise person or a very depressed one. but nobody would ever know. maybe this guys will understand better the hardware but have no clue what software is running on. there is another nice little story: imagine a stone beeing thrown. in mid flight it reaches conciousness. now it thinks its flying because of its own abilities. thats how our intellectuals think of themself nowadays.