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<sup>1</sup>: See e.g. K. E. Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, London, Forth
Estate, 1985; N. Bostrom, “How Long Before Superintelligence?” International Journal of Futures
Studies, vol. 2, (1998); R. Kurzw…The amount of computing power needed to emulate a human mind can likewise be roughly estimated. One estimate, based on how computationally expensive it is to replicate the functionality of a piece of nervous tissue that we have already unde…
Seth Lloyd
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Seth Lloyd is a quantum computing theorist and computational physicist known for foundational work on the physical limits of computation and the relationship between information, entropy, and thermodynamics. His estimates of the computational complexity required to simulate human cognition appear in discussions of mind uploading and artificial superintelligence feasibility, anchoring speculative claims about what it would take to emulate neural systems at scale. The excerpt suggests his work provides a technical grounding for transhumanist and AI acceleration arguments that otherwise risk floating free of physical constraints.
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