Building a Brain.

I have talked about the likelihood that within my lifetime it will be possible to download ourselves into computers and so create new, personal realities for ourselves.  While this seems absolutely crazy at first glance, my prediction just assumed that current trends will continue.

In my tiny blastula of a novel I suggest that this first happens in 2049.  Well, science has already been thinking about this well enough that it seems likely that my prediction is too conservative, that this achievement may well happen before then.  It is virtually certain that an analog human brain will be created before this.

Why do I say that?  Because Henry Markam has already managed to do it with a substantial portion of a rat's neo-cortex.