[wassyape]

This is very important. When people talk about emulating/uploading human brains, they extrapolate computing power and scanning to a point ~2040 when we will have the capability. But guess what, we have the capacity to upload a roundworm now or a fly and have tried to, and we cannot. Wy? it seems that there is something we are missing and most likely it's the science. tl;dr we need to understand brains better before we can upload a human or a fly, this kind of project will get us there.

[gwern]

I would be more impressed by your argument if these projects seemed to have any support or real energy behind them besides a handful of hobbyists and grad students. There's snake oil with far more funding and backing than these projects.