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Human brain has 1000 trillion synapses between 68 billion neurons. What are you going to simulate them on?

And it's not like you can copy brain's connectivity exactly. Such technologies don't exist.



I have a computer like that, embedded in my head even! It's good for real-time simulation, but has trouble simulating the same human from even a couple weeks before.

In all seriousness, it's simultaneously wondrous and terrifying to imagine the hypothetical tooling needed for such a simulation.




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