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 large—at least, not large enough to have a big difference in expected time of arrival.
By analogy to a computer: once you can scan and copy a computer well enough for the copy to function, you’re not very far from being able to make a copy that’s functionally equivalent.
By analogy to a computer: once you can scan and copy a computer well enough for the copy to function, you’re not very far from being able to make a copy that’s functionally equivalent.
Bearing in mind that we created computers in such a way that copying is easy. And we created them digital and use checksums.
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 large—at 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?
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 large—at least, not large enough to have a big difference in expected time of arrival.
By analogy to a computer: once you can scan and copy a computer well enough for the copy to function, you’re not very far from being able to make a copy that’s functionally equivalent.
Bearing in mind that we created computers in such a way that copying is easy. And we created them digital and use checksums.
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?