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Re:First of its kind material can reconnect severed nerves by Geee on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:16AM (#37842415)
You can do this with atom level simulation and growing the brain all the way from DNA, but it needs a lot of compute (> 50 years).

However, and in the end you'd be bored, because you could get rid of all of your human flaws, which is what makes life interesting. It'd be really depressing and boring to be a superintelligent computer.

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Re:First of its kind material can reconnect severed nerves by lordnacho on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:44AM (#37842879)
Yeah exactly. You would never do an atom level simulation, you would distill the model of whatever you think people are.

And then that would live on in a new environment, becoming something entirely different.

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Re:First of its kind material can reconnect severed nerves by d-lisp on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:25AM (#37843139)
Being flawed is the new being sentient.
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Re:First of its kind material can reconnect severed nerves by kwhitefoot on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:04AM (#37843852)
> you could get rid of all of your human flaws,

I take it you have never written any large applications or simulations.

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Re:First of its kind material can reconnect severed nerves by Shorel on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @12:56PM (#37847016)
There's absolutely no basis for the affirmations made in your last paragraph. None at all. And if we think about it, it is very scary.
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