I plan on dedicating a couple of hours per day to learning about the subject and trying to get more people interested in it. I chose a freely available paper on the web on the feasibility of those goals as a starting point and I will try to address any curiosity, doubt, comment, or suggestion relevant to the topic within my capacity.

The Prospects of Whole Brain Emulation within the next Half-Century
Abstract
>Whole Brain Emulation (WBE), the theoretical technology of modeling a human brain in its entirety on a computer–thoughts, feelings, memories, and skills intact–is a staple of science fiction. Recently, proponents of WBE have suggested that it will be realized in the next few decades. In this paper, we investigate the plausibility of WBE being developed in the next 50 years (by 2063). We identify four essential requisite technologies: scanning the brain, translating the scan into a model, running the model on a computer, and simulating an environment and body. Additionally, we consider the cultural and social effects of WBE. We find the two most uncertain factors for WBE’s future to be the development of advanced miniscule probes that can amass neural data in vivo and the degree to which the culture surrounding WBE becomes cooperative or competitive. We identify four plausible scenarios from these uncertainties and suggest the most likely scenario to be one in which WBE is realized, and the technology is used for moderately cooperative ends.

Keywords: Brain Activity Mapping, Scalable Neuroscience, Mind Uploading, Technological Forecasts, Substrate Independent Minds, Whole Brain Emulation, 2063