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[^1]: 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. Kurzweil, The…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 physicist known for his work on the computational power of quantum systems and the limits of computation itself. In these readings, he appears as an authority cited in discussions of how much computational substrate would be needed to emulate human cognition—his estimates help ground speculative arguments about mind uploading and artificial superintelligence within physical constraints. His work is invoked to lend rigor to what might otherwise be purely speculative claims about the feasibility of replicating neural function through computation.
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