there quite a lot we still don’t know about the brain and uploading might be harder than previously believed.
It’s worth remembering the functions of the lymphatic system, and that important discoveries tend to be made first.
After reading the paper, NeuroscientistNews, HN & Reddit comments, it sounds as if for the most part the new tube wouldn’t be directly affecting the brain as the flow is brain->lymph-tube, unless something has gone wrong, possibly being a new cause of various mental disorders as the flow reverses and causes problems.
So it sounds as if an upload which ignored the new tube would work just fine as a normal healthy human mind—in the worst (best?) case, the uploads might not be able to reproduce observed rates of schizophrenia or autism.
Fulltext: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mmdmty3nxfe5u8/2015-louveau.pdf / http://sci-hub.org/downloads/e18c/louveau2015.pdf
It’s worth remembering the functions of the lymphatic system, and that important discoveries tend to be made first.
After reading the paper, NeuroscientistNews, HN & Reddit comments, it sounds as if for the most part the new tube wouldn’t be directly affecting the brain as the flow is brain->lymph-tube, unless something has gone wrong, possibly being a new cause of various mental disorders as the flow reverses and causes problems.
So it sounds as if an upload which ignored the new tube would work just fine as a normal healthy human mind—in the worst (best?) case, the uploads might not be able to reproduce observed rates of schizophrenia or autism.