From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 09:01:30 MST
"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.
I don't think you can get uploading without fine-grained models. How
do you make a higher-level model of a mind without scanning it on a
low level? Remember that the only thing we know are possible to scan
are the actual physical processes going on in the head, not the
information processes. And these scanable processes are low-level
stuff like neural firing, neuron types, connectivity and so on, highly
variable and individual.
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