Any VR Early Adopters Here?

[EyeKhan]

Yes, we can model the solar system.

However, in order to actually calculate it, we still need the observational data from the real world - because anything beyond a two-body problem cannot be accurately calculated in the long term.

That's precisely where your idea falls apart. It's a chaotic system. "Reasonable accuracy" simply does not cut it. Unless of course you're okay with the idea that you uploaded consciousness will succumb to digital Alzheimers after a few years.

Not to mention that the human body is a metric shitton of degrees of magnitude more complicated than our comparatively simple solar system.

And again, if we have the ability to calculate chaotic systems to the degree of accuracy required we won't need your uploading nonsense anymore.

I guess I'm saying without realizing it 'til now that I don't believe uploading is possible, since my default premise is we would only be capable of a relatively rough computer model. Further, that highlights the whole point of uploading, I guess, in that somehow a snapshot of a human mind is loaded into a computer where it somehow continues to function as it did in its former brain, rather than creating a wholly separate program that models it exactly. The upload part fills the role/ solves the problem of having to know with tremendous precision the exact functioning and state of the mind being uploaded.