Fifty years is about the time it takes for breakthroughs to occur that you cannot anticipate. The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 and the human genome was sequenced in 2003. I once asked Francis Crick if back then he thought the human genome would be sequenced in his lifetime. He said it never occurred to him.
Crick also worked on consciousness, which was not solved during his lifetime. How far will we get in 50 years? By then we will have machines that pass the Turing test. However, this is a weak test that does not get at…
