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Why should anyone boot *you* up?

Imagine the following scenario:

You undergo this procedure after you die and your brain scan is kept in some fault-tolerant storage, along the lines of GitHub Arctic Code Vault. If we could scale up the process from Google researchers 1 million times, we could scan a human brain at nanometer resolution, yielding more than 1 zettabyte (i.e., 1 billion terabytes) of data with the same rate. Not only it is infeasible to store that much data with current technology, extracting a nanometer-scale connectome of a human brain may not be enough to capture a person’s mind in its entirety.

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