Neuroprosthesis-driven uploading seems vastly harder for several reasons:
• you’d still need to understand in great detail how the brain processes information (if you don’t, you’ll be left with an upload that, while perhaps intelligent, would not act like how the person acted, and perhaps even drastically so that it might be better to imagine it as a form of NAGI than as WBE)
• integrating the exocortex with the brain would likely still require nanotechnology able to interface with the brain
• ethical/ regulatory hurdles here seem immense
I’d actually expect that in order to understand the brain enough for neuroprosthesis-driven uploading, we’d still likely need to run experiments with nanoprobes (for the same arguments as in the paper: lots of the information processing happens on the sub-cellular level—this doesn’t mean that we have to replicate this information processing in a biologically realistic manner, but we likely will need to at least understand how the information is processed)
Neuroprosthesis-driven uploading seems vastly harder for several reasons:
• you’d still need to understand in great detail how the brain processes information (if you don’t, you’ll be left with an upload that, while perhaps intelligent, would not act like how the person acted, and perhaps even drastically so that it might be better to imagine it as a form of NAGI than as WBE)
• integrating the exocortex with the brain would likely still require nanotechnology able to interface with the brain
• ethical/ regulatory hurdles here seem immense
I’d actually expect that in order to understand the brain enough for neuroprosthesis-driven uploading, we’d still likely need to run experiments with nanoprobes (for the same arguments as in the paper: lots of the information processing happens on the sub-cellular level—this doesn’t mean that we have to replicate this information processing in a biologically realistic manner, but we likely will need to at least understand how the information is processed)