brainstem

The brainstem is not needed to sustain the heart beat and blood pressure.

In this case the brainstem is the replication mechanism, not computation.

Furthermore, while necessary, the brainstem is not sufficient to sustain consciousness.

In vertebrates, inter-aural time differences are known to be calculated in the superior olivary nucleus of the brainstem.

A more fair comparison would be likening AI (and all automata + the internet) to the cerebral cortex of the mammalian (human) brain and human beings to the brainstem.

That is, even if the brainstem could be 100% connected to the spinal cord, we don't know how hard it would be to adapt to the new body.

I remember about a month ago where I had two hours to learn the names of all the tracts and nuclei inside of the brainstem for a readiness quiz.

Hearing about distant acquaintances deaths on Twitter or Facebook won't be a big deal when I'm driving my flying car or plugging my iPhone into my brainstem in 40 years time.

I think my argument still holds for brainstem-layer errors, where I know as I'm pressing the key that it's not what I meant-- it's hard for me to not correct those, anyway.

The avian brain, however, is not divided into layers, but is more like the brainstem, in the sense that it's a lot of nuclei and bulbous areas called the nidopallium and mesopallium.

Then you need to ensure that the sensory nerve roots, which have their nerve bodies in the dorsal root ganglion of the spinal cord, will grow up to the brain and integrate in the brainstem with the ascending 'last leg' nerves.

It seems like the only reason it's legal is that it wasn't really acknowledged until recently that repeated blows to the head (and the resulting brain and neck/brainstem trauma) could cause serious long-term cognitive deficits, and the legal system hasn't caught up with that yet.