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Technical Roadmap for Whole Brain Emulation

Whole brain emulation, emulating the full functions of a human brain in another substrate, has potentially explosive scientific, economic and existential implications. Although far beyond current technical capabilities it is a relatively well defined research goal in line with current developments in neuroscience, large-scale computing and systems biology. This talk sketches out a roadmap for emulation, examining potential stumbling blocks, known constraints, and the scanning, interpretation and simulation technologies that need to be developed in order to achieve emulation. Based on this we can put some constraints on when and how emulation can be achieved.

Biographies: Anders Sandberg

Anders Sandberg holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stockholm University in computational neuroscience, and is currently a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. Sandberg's research centers on societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and emerging technologies, including a technical roadmap on whole brain emulation and papers on cognitive enhancement.