Whole brain emulation

Evaluation

80,000 Hours rates whole brain emulation a "potential highest priority area": an issue that, if more thoroughly examined, could rank as a top global challenge.^[1]

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   80,000 Hours (2022) Our current list of pressing world problems, 80,000 Hours.

Whole brain emulation (sometimes called mind uploading or justsimply uploading) is the fine-grain modellingmodeling of the computational structure of the human brain.

Koehler, Arden (2020) Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities, Effective Altruism Forum, June 22.

BibliographyFurther reading

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Chalmers, David J. (2014) Uploading: A philosophical analysis, in Russell Blackford & Damien Broderick (eds.) Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 102–118.

Whole brain emulation (sometimes called mind uploading or just uploading) is the fine-grain modelling of the computational structure of the human brain. A related term is mind uploading.

artificial sentience | consciousness research | intelligence and neuroscience | long-term future | moral patienthood | non-humans and the long-term future

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Sandberg, Anders & Nick Bostrom (2008) Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap.

Shulman, Carl (2012) Could we use untrustworthy human brain emulations to make trustworthy ones?, The Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, December 11.