Hmmm… Transferring/ copying a human consciousness…
All life on our little planet can be defined by different combinations of the four base nucleotides in DNA, the same base four codes just recombined into long strings/ sequences.
All human history and knowledge can be encoded using just 26 letters and a few other symbols; it’s the same base alphabet/ symbols just recombined into long strings/ sequences.
With all coding schemas it’s the order, recombining sequence of the base symbols that encodes the information.
To understand/ decode the information you have to have a grasp on the base symbols/ patterns being utilized in the coding schema.
I think our brains have a set of base patterns that are used to encode information. The patterns are the equivalence of letters of the alphabet; they are the smallest possible representation of a facet of experience.
The problem is that no two brains are the exactly same. There like trees, there are billions of trees in the world, they all have roughly the same structure/ layout but no two are the same. Brains like trees do have a common topology/ structure though, roots, trunk, branches, etc.
Academia uses FMRI to highlight areas of the brain it believes represents the sub/ cortical regions related to processing specific neural tasks… they are wrong. The Wernicke’s/ Broca’s areas for example are highlighted during speech research not because they are processing the actual speech patterns, but because they are recognising the overall brain pattern activity; it’s a point of focus.
Although most complex neural patterns require deep brain structures to drive them, episodic memories are anchored in the hippocampus for example; I believe that a simple hi-rez electroencephalogram (EEG) on the surface of the cortex would provide enough data, combined with an ‘average’ model of the human connectome to find the base patterns. You would need to find the patterns in the overall cortex activity… not the points of focus/ hubs/ relay points.
Once you have the key/ base patterns you could start decoding their neural logic/ memory structure.
What we need is an intelligent neuromorphic AGI schema based on the human nervous system, which uses the same processing methods/ language/ protocols that can learn to decipher a person’s base codes/ patterns… work in progress.