Curated. The topic of uploads and whole-brain emulation is a frequent one, and one whose feasibility is always assumed to be true. While this post doesn’t argue otherwise, it’s fascinating to hear where we’re with the technology for this.
Post is about tractability / difficulty, not feasibility
What’s the distinction you’re making? A quick google suggests this as the definition for “feasibility”:
the state or degree of being easily or conveniently done
This matches my understanding of the term. It also sounds a lot like tractability / difficultly.
Are you thinking of it as meaning something more like “theoretical possibility”?
That isn’t the definition I’m familiar with—the one I was using is in Webster’s:
1: capable of being done or carried out
Indeed! By “feasibility is assumed to be true”, I meant in other places and posts.
Curated. The topic of uploads and whole-brain emulation is a frequent one, and one whose feasibility is always assumed to be true. While this post doesn’t argue otherwise, it’s fascinating to hear where we’re with the technology for this.
Post is about tractability / difficulty, not feasibility
What’s the distinction you’re making? A quick google suggests this as the definition for “feasibility”:
This matches my understanding of the term. It also sounds a lot like tractability / difficultly.
Are you thinking of it as meaning something more like “theoretical possibility”?
That isn’t the definition I’m familiar with—the one I was using is in Webster’s:
Indeed! By “feasibility is assumed to be true”, I meant in other places and posts.