AABoyles also begins to address another important and much-discussed question:
Can the emulation interface with:
Sensory inputs unavailable to the human brain?
Reasoning, calculation, memory modules and other minds in more direct ways?
Rather than inputting data into computers and observing the outputs of computers and sensory devices as we do today.
Additionally, at what point does such a combination cease to be more like a human mind-computer interface and instead require re-classification as a neuromorphic or otherwise novel entity?
I am opening this thread to test the hypothesis that SuperIntelligence is plausible but that Whole-Brain Emulations would most likely become obsolete before they were even possible.
Further, given the ability to do so, entities which were near to being Whole-Brain Emulations would rapidly choose to cease to be near Whole-Brain Emulations and move on to become something else.
I'll let people fire back with discussion and references before presenting more evidence. My hope is to turn this thread into something publishable in the end.