> Most neuroscientists think the ability to recapture memories from brain tissue and re-create a consciousness inside a computer is at best decades away and probably not possible at all.
Did you deliberately ignore the rest of that sentence?
Did you deliberately ignore the rest of that sentence?
“At best” means “viewed maximally optimistically”, and, in the context of a development timeline, specifically “no sooner than”. So, it was saying “it’s probably not possible at all, and, if it somehow is possible, we’re at least several decades away from even a demonstration”.
You have badly misread, apparently inverting the sense of “at best”.