Russian internet millionaire, Itskov is putting a slice of his fortune in to a bold plan he has devised to bypass ageing. He wants to use cutting-edge science to unlock the secrets of the human brain and then upload an individual's mind to a computer, freeing them from the biological constraints of the body.
The theoretical possibility Randal, a neuroscientist, refers to is rooted in questions about how our brains work that neuroscience has yet to answer. Our brains are made up of about 86 billion neurons, connected cells that send information to each other by firing electrical charges that propagate through this organ in our skulls like waves.
To try to unlock its workings, many neuroscientists approach the brain as if it were a computer. In this analogy the brain turns inputs, sensory data, into outputs, our behaviour, through computations. If this process could be mapped, the brain could perhaps be copied in a computer, along with the individual mind it gives rise to.
Do you think something like this would be possible in the future with the proper technology?
What kind of benefits would this bring?
What your opinion about cheating death by transferring your thoughts to a computer or robot?
What your opinion about cheating death by transferring your thoughts to a computer or robot?
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