[MURG] new Road Map draft

[cat13 at illrepute.org]

"king-yin yan" <y.k.y at lycos.com> writes:

> Hi Jess and others
> 
> Newest version 3.3:
> http://www.geocities.com/softuploading/RoadMap2.png
> http://www.geocities.com/softuploading/RoadMap2.xml
> http://www.geocities.com/softuploading/RoadMap-Explanations.txt

I'm looking at the roadmaps together, just because it's easier for me to
think about yours that way.

My first question is, "what's our next step?"  According to your roadmap,
the places to start are bi-directional interfacing (which we already have),
metallic electrodes (which we already have), the Moravec robot (which I
don't know how we'd get to), lesioning techniques, the cyberworm project,
and vitrification.
So, since we already have a bunch of those, and one is out of our reach, it
sounds like, according to your roadmap, we (and by "we" I mean the human
race) should be working on lesioning and vitrification, and (for the
purposes of MU) nothing else.  Is that accurate?
Then, later on down the line, we start figuring out how the brain encodes
information, and possibly figure out how to identify cells and how to
support the brain outside of the body.  Am I reading this correctly so far?
If these are the case, then is this a comprehensive map?
It's saying that as long as we have the whole-brain map, lesioning
techniques, and either "soft" probes or the combination of hard probes and
the Moravec surgeon, then we'll have everything we need to develop the
gradual-replacement version of MU.  Is there anything you would want to
change, add, or remove?

I'm asking because I would like to merge your ideas with a larger picture.
With that in mind, is there anything you want me to make a special note of?