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chaosmage comments on Should We Shred Whole-Brain Emulation? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: chaosmage 09 July 2015 11:41:43AM 0 points [-]

I presume you mean whole-brain emulations of humans? Even if these can only arise under circumstances that make them obsolete, this is not necessarily true for emulations of simpler nervous systems.

Comment author: SteveG 09 July 2015 12:00:40PM 0 points [-]

I am keen to explore WBEs of other animals, but let's focus on humans and their plausible successors for the moment.

There are complications well worth considering, of course...an animal mind could be economically productive, and a human-animal chimera emulation might seem to be one plausible successor....evidence for that forecast could also be developed...

So many questions...

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