OK, this is cool. And ultimately world-changing.
Half a mouse brain (not even, it lacks real structures) running at 1/10th speed? No big.
Neither was Goddard's first rocket.
It was less than 50 years from that to Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
What it takes a supercomputer to do today, your PDA will be doing...well, not tomorrow, but soon enough. Simulating a brain is one step away from copying one...and copying a mouse brain is only a few steps away from copying a human one. Then...immortality, or near enough. Once the mind becomes data, it can be copied, replicated, transmitted. Consciousness will finally be freed from the prison of meat.
I've got 30-40 years left on this mudball, barring accidents. Assuming Moore's law holds....I should live to see this technology mature. And that means, basically, I live forever.
Cool. I might finally have time to read all the books I own.
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I still hold the arguement that human brains lack organization (note we have to 'write things down' and constantly superficially organize things into folders etc because we can't keep track of where things are) and the process of thought is too chaotic for a computer to replicate.