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" Apple has now done it twice,"
No they didn't. At least one of those times was actually the software I described above, bought from the company I worked for. So I know exactly how hard it was to create.
"Things like the JVM or the Microsoft common language runtime are basically emulators for an abstract virtual machine" -- which the engineers themselves get to specify, design and implement,
"Further, I suspect the human brain is less sensitive than software to minor details of underlying platform. " I would love to live in a world where re-implementing an algorithm that runs on meat, so it runs on silicon instead, amounted to a 'minor detail of underlying platform'. I live i this one, however.
I had assumed we were talking about low-level emulation: the program explicitly models each neuron, and probably at a lower level than that. And physical simulation is a well understood problem and my impression is that the chemists are pretty good at it.
Trying to do some clever white-box reimplementation of the algorithm I agree is probably intractable or worse. The emulation will be very far from the optimal implementation of the mind-program in question.