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Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

It all depends on what your definition of a long time is. Compared to a human life it will be a long time but compared to the age of the universe which is most likely somewhere between 12 to 14 billion years the time needed will be a drop in the bucket.

I meant compared to human life. I know i said 5 thousand years, but it will probably be closer to 20,000 years. We also have to consider the possibility that the brain may not be computable since it is nonlinear and unpredictable and even if it is computable, how are yyou going to upload it? Kurzweil's idea is to use nanobots, but nanobots won't fit. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/07/14/neuroscience-the-singularity-and-the-physical-limits-of-technology/