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What's stopping us from simply scanning a brain and running it, SOMA style? We would need to essentially get a reading for every neuron and get what it's connected to in a brain. A google search states there are 100 billion neurons in the brain. As a CS major about to get his bachelors, a 100 billion neurons doesn't sound too bad. A specialized system could be derived to optimize for comparison operations, and at worst we could run it slowly. Definitely within the realm of possibility.
So then the issue is that we need to be able to scan the brain. We have brain scans, what's stopping us from getting a full reading of one then running it to see what happens? I know we're barely scratching the surface of being able to read signals like brain-to-muscle, eye-to-brain, etc, but I still think this would be a very productive experiment.