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5 Post author: MrMind 09 March 2015 07:48AM

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Comment author: Jost 09 March 2015 09:09:20PM 5 points [-]

Not necessarily. For all we know, we might not need to simulate a human brain on an atomic level to get accurate results. Simulating a brain on a neuron level might be sufficient.

Comment author: Transfuturist 10 March 2015 03:39:07AM 0 points [-]

And creating the abstraction is a software problem. :/