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Ears, mouth, eyes are much eaiser to model than the brain. We already have decent ear and eye emulations.

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Okay, can somebody explain this to me? You say in the article that we'd talk to the em like a regular human, but just because we have an exact model of the brain doesn't mean we would have a model of the ears, mouth, and eyes, does it? And even if we scanned those too, we wouldn't know how to hook them up to the computer, would we? I would expect the way we communicate with the first ems to be very different from normal speech.

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(chuckle) I wonder whether Panayides knows what's really behind his repeated references to Nicholson (hint: "People need the safety of lies; too much truth isn’t welcome, ...":-):-)

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What's the bird's name?

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Good article! Bridges the gap between being insightful and engaging for an audience which is not already familiar with your ideas.

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"His smile, when it flashes, is a wolfish grin, with an unmistakable tinge of Jack Nicholson." Ha ha!

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even has a book (still in draft form) on the subject

Finish your book. I still want to read it. I also still think books will endure more than blogs, in which posts are too scattered to make for later reading.

Speaking of books, have you read "Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors?"

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