[ExI] Would human uploads have emotions?

[Darin Sunley]

I don't think the question is well-posed. A human upload is a data file.
When we execute the data in an emulator, the resulting system will have
whatever behavior the emulator implements.

If you're asking if we'll get emotional behavior using a
naive implementation of a RELU neural net with the same structure as a
scanned connectome map, the answer is probably "sorta, but really weird".
There's a lot of stuff going on in a brain other than neurons propagating
firing spikes. Also, human neurons don't actually implement RELU in any
way, shape, or form. You'll almost certainly have to also implement ganglia
and the neuron's chemical/hormonal environment before the emotional
behavior looks even semi-normal.

We'll probably have brain scans of executable quality quite a significant
amount of time before we have an emulator that generates normal human
behavior when running them.

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