Whole Brain Emulation: the concept of uploading an entire human brain and running it on a computer

Necessities

• Scanning
• Processing power
• Environment

Scanning

• The connectome: a complete map of the brain
• we’ve only been able to map the brain of an anemotoad
• It has 302 neurons
• Human brains have 86 billion neurons

Processing power

Environment

Considerations

• Suicide — why live in reality when you can have everything you want in a virtual world
• Virtual punishment — to live out your regular life digitally
• Mapping — do we need to map out all neurons, when not all of them pertain to consciousness
• Uploading consciousness MVP?
• Parallel universes — if everyone gets their own VR, then everyone can get a copy of everyone else
• Crime seises to exist
• Manipulate time to further scientific advancement
• Download information — everyone turns out the same
• Transhumanism — the thought that human beings should use technology to transcend their biological limitations