ewang comments on 6502 simulated - mind uploading for microprocessors - Less Wrong

36 Post author: humpolec 08 January 2011 06:03PM

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Comment author: ewang 09 January 2011 11:53:22PM 1 point [-]

Even if scanning leads to a working simulation of a brain, there will have to be several more years before sufficiently powerful hardware is available that could run it at "brainspeed".

Comment author: EdS 10 January 2011 04:54:47PM 3 points [-]

Indeed. More interesting perhaps, is that destructive scanning would become viable long before non-disruptive scanning. Also note: a slow-running simulation which turns out to be in agony doesn't have to suffer for much subjective time. Presuming the 'owners' care about that.

Comment author: genix 08 August 2011 09:58:38PM 1 point [-]

But I'd really like to see the simulation then. That could answer the "soul" question forever :)