Seedy Johnson Yes, although we have a very long way to go.
   Although...
   when you think about it...
   *
   The PRODUCTS of the synaptic activity are _exactly_ what we are
   putting into a computer *now*... simply by typing here.. posting
   pictures... etc.
   *
   The EXPRESSION of synaptic activity easily resides in computers,
   books, movies, actions, products in the world.
   *
   So... we're already on computers. There's even Shakespeare quote
   generators which can take what is, effectively, a portion of
   Shakespeare's internal algorithms for generating prose (or a
   decent facsimile of it) to effectively cause his brain to live
   again, in a sense.
   *
   I guess we're trying to accomplish what we already accomplish
   now but with a bit more of the raw unprocessed data.
   *
   Theoretically, with a good-enough approximation of the processes
   we could effectively create a human brain within a computer...
   but again, it wouldn't really be anything we're not doing
   already, as the products of our labor (such as making,
   programming computers, using them, what we put on them, etc) -
   ARE already disembodied synaptic activity, frozen (or repeating
   or generating) yet no less valid because it's not happening "in
   someone's head".
   *
   So, we're really doing what we've always done, just from a
   different perspective and calling it 'new' when we work on AI.
   Maybe.