"Billy Brown" <bbrown@conemsco.com> writes:
> Bryan Moss wrote:
> > Perhaps a complete model of the brain in fine-grained detail will be used
> > simply to reassure potential uploads that no 'essence' will be lost in the
> > translation.
>
> Computers capable of running that fine-grained model won't exist until long,
> long after uploading a higher-level model becomes feasible. A few paranoid
> types might wait, but their experience would hardly be typical.
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