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Anders Sandberg | Post-Scarcity Civilizations & Cognitive Enhancement
The Foresight Institute Podcast
How Much Computing Power Is Needed to Simulate the Brain?
We're not even perfectly identical to ourselves day by day. We change quite a bit every time we go to sleep or a change of opinion about the question. How much computing power is needed? That depends actually on how much is needed to simulate the brain and nobody knows that even to this day. And as you go deeper down in resolution, you of course, add up needing more and more data and more and more computing power. What it means: If the brain is fairly simple, like maybe a sub-philosopher's won't believe, we should just scan the logical structure of my thinking and could run it on a very small computer.
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