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Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film... by thwest on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @04:03PM (#4912441)
You seem to be claiming that intelligence can overcome fundamental limits of physics and signal processing.
Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film... by endtime on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @05:51PM (#4912926)
Not intentionally...can you unpack that a bit?
Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film... by thwest on Thursday December 13, 2012 @03:51PM (#4918014)
> claiming that highly intelligent AI couldn't solve the upload problem.

Solving the upload problem possibly requires imaging / scanning at a level of detail that might be outside what is possible within the constraints of physics. If it turns out we need atomic level information for the whole body, the project might be hosed from the beginning, something that better ideas or more thinking can't overcome.

Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film... by endtime on Friday December 14, 2012 @07:55AM (#4920695)
So because solving a problem might require something that might be outside the constraints of physics, I'm implying that solving that problem requires violating physics? That doesn't make sense.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you implying that a neuron/synapse-level scan might not be sufficient?