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> It's possible to emulate every aspect of an organic brain. It's also pointless (unless you intend to become immortal through backups) it may turn out to be e

• rbanffy 15y ago
  > it may turn out to be easier than writing an intelligence directly. Only if you would be satisfied with an AI that could not be trusted to deliver correct results. If you want to know it does what you want it to, you have to code it to do what you want it to. You may copy the building blocks of an organic brain, but you'll have to tie them together yourself. An uploaded human is still capable of human error.
• loup-vaillant 15y ago
  Uploading also require knowledge about what exactly is needed to perform a good enough emulation. What level of granularity, how to interface the emulation to reality, how to ensure that any inaccuracy in the emulation won't make it insane… The brain is messy, and may require even more insights than Friendly AI does. Sure we could always go the trial and error route, but then we're talking human torture and human sacrifice. (An upload counts as a human in my book.)
  • rbanffy 15y ago
    > how to ensure that any inaccuracy in the emulation won't make it insane… You can always restore a snapshot of your sane self ;-) Based on it, you could debug your own brain (being restored to said snapshot from time to time, until you remain sane long enough, but with full knowledge of what happened since the last "boot"). Wouldn't be fun.