This argument forced me to change my mind a little: indeed, to do the neurosurgery, you need an image anyway, possibly of the same order of resolution or even greater than required for scanning, so emulation may be easier than repair, and realignment of the image should be relatively easy once you have a scan. Still, I don’t see emulation working for a long time still, I’d give it expected 60 to 150 years, and it’s hard to say how the process will look at that point, on the progress of what kinds of technologies the feasibility of this process will depend.
That was “Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap” from the Future of Humanity Institute. (You shouldn’t post bare links.) I’m sure aware of it. It’s a feasibility study, and I’m sure it’s feasible, so no great revelations there.
The problem is that this study is roughly analogous to estimating that the progress in steam engine technology will allow very fast and efficient trains eventually, which means that there will be fast trains based on some technology, if they are still needed, at least that good.
Which was basically my sentiment: you list all these technologies, but they, specifically, may be of little relevance. This isn’t an argument for emulation to be infeasible. I also reserve an option for revival not being the best thing you can do with a dead body, but this is an argument this thread is too small to contain.
This argument forced me to change my mind a little: indeed, to do the neurosurgery, you need an image anyway, possibly of the same order of resolution or even greater than required for scanning, so emulation may be easier than repair, and realignment of the image should be relatively easy once you have a scan. Still, I don’t see emulation working for a long time still, I’d give it expected 60 to 150 years, and it’s hard to say how the process will look at that point, on the progress of what kinds of technologies the feasibility of this process will depend.
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf
That was “Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap” from the Future of Humanity Institute. (You shouldn’t post bare links.) I’m sure aware of it. It’s a feasibility study, and I’m sure it’s feasible, so no great revelations there.
The problem is that this study is roughly analogous to estimating that the progress in steam engine technology will allow very fast and efficient trains eventually, which means that there will be fast trains based on some technology, if they are still needed, at least that good.
Which was basically my sentiment: you list all these technologies, but they, specifically, may be of little relevance. This isn’t an argument for emulation to be infeasible. I also reserve an option for revival not being the best thing you can do with a dead body, but this is an argument this thread is too small to contain.