Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading
by notahacker on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:41PM
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Even if the technology to emulate a particular brain based on a preserved copy could exist, it seems to be asking a lot for the engineers to also emulate the specific nervous system that brain has grown to work with without a copy of it...
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading
by SomeNeuroGuy on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:06PM
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Eh, you can guess for a lot of it, and you at least have a map of where all the inputs actually GO. If it synapses in the olfactory bulb, probably don't hook up your simulated eyeball and all that.
Brain plasticity can cover some wiring sins - cochlear implants are pretty awful for connecting where they should go, but it's good enough to get some degree of hearing going. Get enough and the simulated patient can help you out telling you if you've got it right or not.