Perhaps, but that's a big if. We can't even say for sure whether a complete reverse-engineering of neurons needs to take quantum effects into account, as Penrose has suggested.
All you're saying is that if we knew exactly how humans work, we could build one. Seems like a tautology to me.
If I knew the exact quantum state of the Universe at the Big Bang, I could figure out exactly how the Universe evolved, but that's never going to happen either.
I think the complete reverse engineering the way you are describing will not be possible. We can only try to reproduce the same outputs for the same inputs. But I don't think we'll be able to fully define what happens in the black box in between.
We might come up with something that works similarly, and can do great things with it, but I don't think AI can be invented the way you are describing.
All you're saying is that if we knew exactly how humans work, we could build one. Seems like a tautology to me.
If I knew the exact quantum state of the Universe at the Big Bang, I could figure out exactly how the Universe evolved, but that's never going to happen either.
I think the complete reverse engineering the way you are describing will not be possible. We can only try to reproduce the same outputs for the same inputs. But I don't think we'll be able to fully define what happens in the black box in between.
We might come up with something that works similarly, and can do great things with it, but I don't think AI can be invented the way you are describing.