gwern comments on Carl Zimmer on mind uploading - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 27 December 2010 03:07:17PM *  2 points [-]

Well, it's a rather strange thought.

Even if it just behaved like a generic human brain rather than my brain or yours in particular, scientists could still use it to run marvelous new kinds of experiments.

What on earth is a 'generic human brain'? It would seem that if it really is an uploaded mind, then it must be a particular mind, which wouldn't be generic at all.

The examples given sound like they could probably be done with simulating only regions, and so be akin to Blue Brain; it might be sensible to speak of regions as being generic (perhaps averages of lots of specific regions?).

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 28 December 2010 06:38:14PM 1 point [-]

It sounded in the article like it would be a really lo-fi upload, such that it wouldn't resemble the person uploaded much more than anyone else. But this is a valid point.