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by david-given 3803 days ago
Yes, but that's just large scale structures. This wouldn't be simulating any of the features which most people find interesting about brains, i.e. the personality. It's important to make that clear. This is not a brain upload.
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marmaduke 3803 days ago
Personality would be expressed as interperson variability in certain parameters or connectivity of the brain model. It's not at all mystical or hiding in the subcellular structure.

Brain upload is a sci-fi invention; using a T1, DWI, fMRI, EEG and behavioral data to build a realistic model of a subject's brain is today's neuroscience.

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jpellman 3803 days ago
Brain upload is a sci-fi invention; using a T1, DWI, fMRI, EEG and behavioral data to build a realistic model of a subject's brain is today's neuroscience.

I will echo this point. I don't think I've met anyone in the field of neuroimaging who sees mind uploading as plausible. There's simply too much noise in the data for that sort of thing. Even simplified simulations such as the Human Brain Project require so much computing power that modeling a single mind is prohibitive; I can't imagine trying to perform whole-brain emulation accurately and practically without incurring more cost than it's worth. Wetware is good enough for me.

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marmaduke 3803 days ago
> (1) Even simplified simulations such as the Human Brain Project require so much computing power that (2) modeling a single mind is prohibitive

This step from (1) to (2) is a common assumption that most people are unwilling to reconsider, but it's equally possible to reject bottom-up modeling and ask what are the high-level constraints on brain activity that shape and direct it. This is what we do with the data I mentioned (T1, EEG, etc).

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