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Whole brain emulation (WBE): What happens when we get there? | Ars Technica

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22 February 2015



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“Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains. With an approach known as whole brain emulation (WBE), the idea is that if we can perfectly copy the functional structure of the brain, we will create software perfectly analogous to one. The upshot here is simple yet mind-boggling. Scientists hope to create software that could theoretically experience everything we experience: emotion, addiction, ambition, consciousness, and suffering.”

Source: arstechnica.com

This won’t happen tomorrow, or even next year, but it probably will happen this century.

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