Even if scanning leads to a working simulation of a brain, there will have to be several more years before sufficiently powerful hardware is available that could run it at "brainspeed".
But I'd really like to see the simulation then. That could answer the "soul" question forever :)
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Even if scanning leads to a working simulation of a brain, there will have to be several more years before sufficiently powerful hardware is available that could run it at "brainspeed".
But I'd really like to see the simulation then. That could answer the "soul" question forever :)