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> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Inst
by glorkk 9y ago
> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is impossible" quote from 1895.
- kolpa 9y agoTo be fair, it's unclear whether Linnarsson was saying that brain uploading would never be possible (which is a step too far), or that this company would never people to revive people who paid today using brain-uploading techniques available within the near future (which is quite reasonable).
- SomeNeuroGuy 9y agoI fundamentally don't understand those comments. Like, I get that these guys might be - maybe even probably are! - snake oil salesmen, but what about brain digitization is actually impossible? There are certainly a fixed number of neurotransmitter types, a fixed number of channels, a fixed structure to a particular operating brain, and so on. Anything that exists can be reverse engineered and, in principle, rebuilt.