{"id":3798,"date":"2016-06-22T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2016-06-22T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:39:15","slug":"the-implausible-task-of-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2016\/06\/22\/21\/39\/the-implausible-task-of-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Implausible Task of Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reverse engineering the mind<\/a> from a functional decomposition of the brain.. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What if you tried to use neuroscience’s current tools to reverse engineer one of the simplest microprocessors, the 1970s-era 6502<\/a>, and attempt a reconstruction of the continuum of its functional state?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Spoiler: it doesn’t work<\/a>. No consciousness uploading for you!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reverse engineering the mind from a functional decomposition of the brain.. \u00a0 What if you tried to use neuroscience’s current tools to reverse engineer one of the simplest microprocessors, the 1970s-era 6502, and attempt...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[805,954,598],"tags":[1911,1634,1910,1451],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-simulation","category-singularity","tag-bunk","tag-neuroscience","tag-rapture","tag-singularity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t