{"id":207495,"date":"2025-03-01T00:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/future-day-james-fodor-whole-brain-emulation"},"modified":"2025-03-01T00:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:14:51","slug":"future-day-james-fodor-whole-brain-emulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/future-day-james-fodor-whole-brain-emulation","title":{"rendered":"Future Day \u2014 James Fodor \u2014 Whole Brain Emulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvLBg0Blhgg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Slides here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MZMmdp\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MZMmdp<\/a> \u2014 Whole Brain Emulation &amp; Computational Neuroscience Synopsis Within a few decades, I believe it will be possible to construct working simulations of an entire human brain. In this talk I will explain why I believe this, with reference to recent work in Computational Neuroscience, extrapolations of Moore\u2019s Law, and other such matters. I will also address some common criticisms leveled against whole brain emulation, and briefly discuss some of the many ways I believe this technology will drastically change the face of society in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll basically be presenting selected material from this publication, with some updates and additions of my own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk\/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf\">http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk\/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Science, Technology &amp; the Future \u2014 By Design.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lQZRrX4PsI\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifuture.org\/\">Homepage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Homepage&#8221; &#8212; Science, Technology &amp; the Future\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scifuture.org\/embed\/#?secret=Q774ISXZkv#?secret=lQZRrX4PsI\" data-secret=\"lQZRrX4PsI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slides here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/MZMmdp \u2014 Whole Brain Emulation &amp; Computational Neuroscience Synopsis Within a few decades, I believe it will be possible to construct working simulations of an entire human brain. In this talk I will explain why I believe this, with reference to recent work in Computational Neuroscience, extrapolations of Moore\u2019s Law, and other such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}