Uploading Brain into Computer: Whom to Upload First?

As we write this paper there is a team of researchers who are working toward the creation of a "Brain Simulation Platform", software that will map the human brain down to a minute level of detail (see https://www.humanbrainproject.eu). This research has incredible implications for many scientific fields of study. The completion of this project will also represent the completion of the first two criteria set forth by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom in their paper Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap [1], which would imply that we will be well on our way toward our first functional brain emulation. With the apparent eminence of, at least a simplistic version, of whole brain emulation, we must begin to consider some implications for the future. The goal of whole brain emulation is the eventual use of the technology to emulate a human mind.