[MURG] mind uploading x prize?

[Brubaker, Shane]

Hi Sim!  Yes, let's work together on this.  Ok, I will draw up a draft
description of the prize, and then we can bounce it around on the list
and work on it.  

So, it sounds like based on the discussion so far that we have some idea
of what the criteria for success could be.  I'm thinking of making the
main prize be for brain emulation of a human, as this will really
capture public attention the most, but also put in milestones for a
nematode and a rat with smaller prizes along the way.  

Thanks,
Shane


-----Original Message-----
From: Sim Bamford [mailto:sim at plaything.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:40 PM
To: murg at minduploading.org
Subject: Re: [MURG] mind uploading x prize?

Shane wrote:

>I like the idea of writing this up as an X prize.  It will bring some
public
>attention to the idea and help make the goals and concept more
concrete.
>
>Is anyone from MURG planning on doing this?  Should we put together a
>virtual team?  I would be willing to put some part time work into it.
>
>  
>
Hi Shane,

If you're prepared to draft a description of such a prize then I'll hold

off from posting anything on the X-prize website, so that we can put the

same thing in. Once you've drafted something if you post it on the list 
we can bounce it around and refine it. Or did you have in mind something

more concrete like setting up a methuselah-mouse-type independent prize?

Sincerely

Simeon Bamford
Postgraduate Research Student
Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre
Edinburgh University



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