Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom's "Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap" might interest some people here: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/

Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom's "Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap" might interest some people here: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3853/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3... Most of it is over my head, but it was an interest read and shows the kind of techniques we'd need to be able to do this.