The only honest is to say no one knows. The questions that need to be answered before we get to this point are vast. Is the structure of the brain important for consciousness? Is the material that the brain is made of important for consciousness? Can a computer model actually capture what's important for consciousness? Is the "you" transferred to a computer really still "you"?
Yes, it's hypothetically possible. It's also hypothetically possible for different people to have remarkably different brain chemistries such that the birthday cake neuron in one person would be located in a different place than in other people. We've mapped the human genome, but a long way remains to map the human brain.
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The only honest is to say no one knows. The questions that need to be answered before we get to this point are vast. Is the structure of the brain important for consciousness? Is the material that the brain is made of important for consciousness? Can a computer model actually capture what's important for consciousness? Is the "you" transferred to a computer really still "you"?
Yes, it's hypothetically possible. It's also hypothetically possible for different people to have remarkably different brain chemistries such that the birthday cake neuron in one person would be located in a different place than in other people. We've mapped the human genome, but a long way remains to map the human brain.