Whole brain emulation
From a differential progress framework, there is a lot of uncertainty and disagreement about whether whole brain emulation should be pushed forward.
Two reports investigating this question are:
- Singularity Summit 2011 Workshop Report
- Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap by the Future of Humanity Institute
Three key technologies need to be developed to get to whole brain emulations:
- scanning
- modeling
- computing
Which of those is developed last will influence the dynamics of the transition to a world with emulated minds.
In his book The Age of Em, Robin Hanson makes an extensive analysis of how a world of emulated minds (ems) would work assuming its development isn’t globally coordinated and that proprietary rights are respected.
