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Comment author: SteveG 10 July 2015 01:09:16PM 0 points [-]

In order to analyze the future of brain emulations further, I want to begin to add some distinctions:

The level of "malleability" of an emulation represents the degree to which its progress through time can be influenced by specific attempts to change it or control its environment.

The precision of this distinction needs to be increased, and people can comment about that here.