I extracted some key points from a paper on the feasibility of mind uploading by one of the leading neuro-engineers whose research objective is the implementation of whole brain emulation (WBE). I have an amateur interest in the subject and I am thinking of popularizing some of the work, arguments, and counter-arguments in this field and its goals.
Any anons interested in this?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286822575_Feasible_Mind_Uploading
>Introduction
The objective is to make individual human minds independent of a single (biological) substrate (Koene 2011).
> Iterative improvements in four main areas to achieve WBE
structural scanning (connectomics) - high-res microscopy carried out by taking electron microscope images of successive ultrathin layers of brain tissue.
functional recording
a.biological tools that employ DNA amplification to write events onto a molecular “ticker-tape” (Kording 2011).
b.establishing the equivalent of an electronic synaptic network based on micron-scale wireless neural interfaces. (Seo et al. 2013)
c. a probe the size of a red blood cell can include operational circuitry, infrared power delivery and communications, and an antenna for passive communications
>Is a computer too deterministic to house a mind?
If we say that neurons and other parts of the physiology are not deterministic and therefore not like computer programs then that is true for anything built in the real world, such as transistors, which also do not operate in a totally deterministic and predictable manner. (subject to the whims of variability in material and effects from surrounding environmental noise)
>Conclusions
Emulation is a concrete approach to the transition from a biological brain to implementation in another substrate and it is reasonable to assume that the result will be a functioning mind with general intelligence.
Any anons interested in this?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286822575_Feasible_Mind_Uploading
>Introduction
The objective is to make individual human minds independent of a single (biological) substrate (Koene 2011).
> Iterative improvements in four main areas to achieve WBE
structural scanning (connectomics) - high-res microscopy carried out by taking electron microscope images of successive ultrathin layers of brain tissue.
functional recording
a.biological tools that employ DNA amplification to write events onto a molecular “ticker-tape” (Kording 2011).
b.establishing the equivalent of an electronic synaptic network based on micron-scale wireless neural interfaces. (Seo et al. 2013)
c. a probe the size of a red blood cell can include operational circuitry, infrared power delivery and communications, and an antenna for passive communications
>Is a computer too deterministic to house a mind?
If we say that neurons and other parts of the physiology are not deterministic and therefore not like computer programs then that is true for anything built in the real world, such as transistors, which also do not operate in a totally deterministic and predictable manner. (subject to the whims of variability in material and effects from surrounding environmental noise)
>Conclusions
Emulation is a concrete approach to the transition from a biological brain to implementation in another substrate and it is reasonable to assume that the result will be a functioning mind with general intelligence.
