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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:30:44 -0600
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33395 - #33401

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Robert Ettinger, I am not talking about a digital computer and I never was.
I am saying that electronic analogues of neurons, printed into a massive
cube that mirrors precisely the configuration of the brain you start with,
should have the same emergent properties the brain has, but with greater
fidelity and stupendously quicker performance.

There is no practical difference between this and uploading, however - you
could copy the electronic analogue at any time, merge it's functions with
others, and so on.  The only thing different is the underlying hardware
would not be purely digital computers, although large chunks of it would
be.

Again, building hardware like this would most likely be much easier than
creating a new biological brain.  And just as importantly, there would be
tremendous advantages for our descendents to do it this way because the
resulting 'uploaded' humans would be capable of thinking many times faster
than humans think today, and could enhance their mental faculties by editing
in new systems.

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