[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

[John Clark]

>> 
>> Damien Broderick wrote:
>> Read what I wrote. A vitrified brain is not a living brain.

> Eugen Leitl wrote:
> A vitrified brain is a snapshot, potentially enough to
> resume the original process (you'll be dropping a few bits on
> the floor, as short-term memory will not be consolidated,
> so you'll lose at least a couple hours).

Yes, but the machine built by Kenneth J. Hayworth doesn't use vitrified brains, it uses fresh wet squishy brains, and makes consistent slices of it 29.4 nanometers thick that are ready to be photographed with an electron microscope.

 John K Clark



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