In my mind the distance between the resolution necessary to make something brain-like and functional, and the resolution necessary to make a perfect copy of the target brain is not very largeāat least, not large enough to have a big difference in expected time of arrival.
Even given that the technology is being created by the same species that takes decades to weed out bugs in something as (relatively) trivial as a computer operating system?
Even given that the technology is being created by the same species that takes decades to weed out bugs in something as (relatively) trivial as a computer operating system?