This is the same confident, facile declaration by may technologists who blather on about how we are on the cusp (a decade or two away) of being able to "downloa

This is the same confident, facile declaration by may technologists who blather on about how we are on the cusp (a decade or two away) of being able to "download" the state of a person's brain and so let them live forever, in a virtual simulation. Such people are entirely ignorant of biology. The analogy to programming, the thing they do know something about, is and irresistible analogy because they don't know enough to see the massive flaws in the analogy. To be more concrete, by using the computerese term of art "hack" you are begging the question.