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by simplify 1015 days ago
> Humans, too, would likely be nearly stateless if we took a point-in-time snapshot...

I highly doubt that would ever be possible in practice, as our inputs are much too complex. But I want to point out, you're basically saying here "humans are nearly stateless if we take a snapshot of their state and simulate that state..."

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> I highly doubt that would ever be possible in practice, as our inputs are much too complex. But I want to point out, you're basically saying here "humans are nearly stateless if we take a snapshot of their state and simulate that state..."

1) We don't have infinite inputs

2) We (our brains) don't have infinite processing

3) We (our brains) don't have infinite lossless storage: Our brains often perform pruning of unimportant information.

Given that there is an ultimately finite upper bound of both # of inputs & processing power & storage, at some point, the simulation of a human from a given snapshot is reductively possible.