🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8903100502.AA24611@athos.rutgers.edu>, bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
> 
> After spending a frustrating evening with my Britanica I still haven't
> found out just how much storage, how many instructions/second, how
> many simulated nuerons, or what ever, are needed to simulate the
> function of a human brain.

(chuckle): If Turing didn't know, who are we?

> Just what are the design parameters for a machine that would be needed
> to upload a human mind? What about the simulated environment you need to
> be able to walk around in and interact with other uploaded minds?
[elided]
> How do we know this is an upload and not a download :-)

Maybe (:-(*)) by _unloading_<voluntarytermination:death>
and waiting for a _reboot_<maybeGodisjustbuiltinmicrocodeafterall>

Or perhaps we are already VMing around now!  {SO what's term, JoSH, for
a virtual machine environment hoisting above its parent, and assuming
control? Partstoob esrever? }

> -- 
>               Bob Pendleton, speaking only for myself.
> UUCP Address:  decwrl!esunix!bpendlet or utah-cs!esunix!bpendlet
> 
> [You'll find many of the best guesses in one place in Moravec's Mind Children.
>  He figures 10 teraops cpu and 10 terabytes memory, but I'm vastly oversimplifying,
>  read the book.  (He also figures to operate in the real world, not simulated,
>  by means of robotic bodies.)
>  --JoSH]

I still think that's too small; a good simulation, but lacking essence.
(I believe I will live to see it in my hands, within 20 years).

roy a. crabtree att!mtdca!royc 201-957-6033

[Esroh najort.  --JoSH]