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Lachann comments on PZ Myers on the Infeasibility of Whole Brain Emulation - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lachann 15 July 2012 12:49:55AM 2 points [-]

It's possible to directly read the state of transistors in the phone's memory via scanning capacitance microscopy (http://www.multiprobe.com/technology/technologyassets/S05_1_direct_measurements_of_charge_in_floating_gate.pdf), so you can reconstruct the actual contents of the memory. Probably the greater challenge would be figuring out how to cut the phone into slices without damaging the memory.