[Tyler]

The Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap
     

The Future of Humanity Institute,
a multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford, has
produced a detailed roadmap document describing the areas of scientific
research that will be needed to develop real technology for uploading
the human mind as software. The Whole Brain Emulation
Roadmap (PDF format) also goes into the philosophical assumptions
and implications of the project and even considers the economic impact
of success. The 130 page document was prepared by Anders Sandberg, Nick
Bostrom and a workshop of researchers who gathered at Oxford last
year. In
every area of cognitive science, the document details what we know, what
we don't know yet, and the best guess at what problems we'll run into in
the process of developing whole brain emulation technology. If you're
not familiar with the idea of mind uploading from science fiction or
tranhumanism, a good starting place is the Mind Uploading Home
Page or the Wikipedia Mind
Uploading article. Basically, the idea is a human could upload their
mind from their short-lived meat brain to perpetual storage in some type
of computer or other brain emulating machine. The uploaded mind might
then exist either in a virtual world or, eventually, transferred to some
type of android or other humanoid robot body.
   

http://robots.net/article/2680.html
     

[Freddy]

Any takers ?  Wonder if this will run alongside cryogenics ?  Spooky stuff really, but then it is Halloween..