The last invention we will ever need

is a super smart robot that can invent stuff. This means it can invent an even smarter robot that can invent more stuff.

Discuss.

Human brains do not work in binary, do not function 1 pulse at a time and brains cells are nothing like transistors since they use synapses and have 30-40 connections to other brain cells. Human brains works in the strength of the 30-40 synapses each brain cell organizes and it functions continuously receiving pulses irregularly and not the same pulse as other brain cells.

Perhaps lots of microchips which model brain cells all organised like the human brain would be capable of producing a brain of some sorts, but this is only half the battle since this synthetic brain would have to be programmed to feel think and perceive like the insect or whatever it is trying to synthesize. Scientists in the distant future who try this would probably start with computers capable of analysing very simple data and performing thoughts to program themselves and thus learn like we do, they would then work to model the instinctive parts of the brain like lizards and insects, then work their way up to synthesizing a neo-cortex which sentience appears to spring from.

These scientists of the future however are all hypothetical and people in the future would probably look at it and notice a few problems with my assumptions. We don't have enough information to know whether sentience can be synthesized.