[MURG] mind uploading x prize?

[Eric Zilli]

The X Prize Foundation, which recently awarded it's $10 million dollar
prize to SpaceShipOne is starting a new series of prizes. They're
accepting suggestions for the nature of the contests on their site
http://www.wtnxprize.org/

Here's a quote from the page:

"Potential types of challenges? 
Here is a very rough and incomplete list of the sorts of challenges
that might be appropriate:
* Medical challenges, such a cure for cancer or other major diseases. 
* Technological "holy grails", such as artificial intelligence,
teleportation, molecular assemblers (true nanotechnology), cold
fusion, or a believable virtual reality system
* Major global challenges, such as the various UN Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) announced by the world's leaders at the UN in
2000 at the Millennium Summit."

I think mind uploading fits in nicely with the sort of thing they're
after. Perhaps one or more of us should suggest it as a challenge. The
exact challenge should perhaps be something like the automated
scanning and emulation of a rat brain. The challenge naturally
couldn't be about humans, but rats should make a reasonable test
animal.

Any thoughts?

-- 
Eric Zilli
Hasselmo Lab - Computational Neurophysiology
Center for Memory and Brain
Boston University
2 Cummington St.
Boston MA, 02215
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