ciphergoth comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 20 February 2010 11:12:52AM *  0 points [-]

Disclaimer: I have no relevant expertise. That said, FWIW I suspect that whole-body people will be brought back first:

  • if through bodily reanimation, because repair of the whole body will be easier than replacement of the body given only the severed head

  • if through scanning/WBE, because it will be possible to scan their spinal columns as well as their brains and it will be easier to build them virtual bodies using their real bodies as a basis.

Though CI don't offer a neuro option, their focus (obviously) is preserving the information in the brain.