Редактирование: Whole brain emulation (раздел)

=== Moravec Procedure ===

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Scanning of the neural structures may take the form of gradual replacement, in which a robot surgeon equipped with a manipulator that subdivies into increasingly smaller branches. While the patient is awake and conscious, this manipulator begins removing cells, clamping blood vessels, exposing synapses for analysis, etc. Once the onboard computing has a good picture of what's going on, it creates a simulation of the specific volume of the brain and replaces the part of the brain with the hardware running this simulation, using magic nanofingers to plug everything together. After a while, the entire brain is composed of this hardware, maintaining the same functionality as before. '''REF MORAVEC 1988'''. While this may help mitigate fears of loss of consciousness in an all-in-one 'kill,cut,scan' approach, it is technically infeasible as the system has to be both seamlessly integrated with living, changing, moving biological tissue.

It is sometimes suggested that the successive aggregation of brain-computer interfaces to a brain will lead to a state where transfer is possible, by reaching a state where most functions are carried out in the external hardware and the brain is no longer necessary, or by reaching a point where the systems are so pervasive that it is possible to scan the whole of the brain with them, destructively or otherwise.