The hypothesis is that human Whole-Brain Emulation will not be a recognizable stage in the development of AGI that lasts for any significant amount of time. Also, an "algorithmic economy" of human whole-brain emulations is highly unlikely to be anything but science fiction.

The goal is to examine whether there are some fundamental flaws in the the nature of this forecast.

I will lay out the case after more opinions and reading material are available to us...