Once a mouse-scale whole brain emulation has been achieved, there are compelling reasons to think that human-level AI would not be far off. There are a number of ways the transition could be made. The most obvious is simply to scale up the emulation process and apply it to the human brain. It would be hard engineering, for sure, but no conceptual breakthroughs would be required. But is it realistic to expect the relevant enabling technologies, such as computer processing power and storage capacity, to carry on improving at a fast enough rate? Moore’s law has to end somewhere. Perhaps it will
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