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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by fixermark on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:31PM (#16748812)
I'm reminded of the 'hybrot' experiments where rat brain cells in a nutrient solution are allowed to wire up their own neural network on top of electrodes that send and receive data wirelessly from a robot body [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401756/rat-brained-robot/]

The question of doing something similar with a strata running a human brain doesn't seem impossible, just extremely technologically daunting when one considers the sheer number of connections into and out of the physical brain.

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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by SomeNeuroGuy on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:37PM (#16750814)
The number of connections is high, but the bandwidth is surprisingly low. Modern edge routers could do it a couple times over.
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