Could We Upload Our Consciousness To A Computer?
Would it ever be possible to one day upload our consciousness to a computer? How would we go about this?
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The Brain vs. The Computer
https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bvc.html
“Throughout history, people have compared the brain to different inventions.”
Scientists Are Convinced Mind Transfer Is the Key to Immortality
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/scientists-are-convinced-mind-transfer-is-the-key-to-immortality
“Call it mind transfer, uploading, brain backup, whatever—the idea of copying the human brain to a computer so it can live on without the body has a strong hold on futurists, neuroscientists, and folks that just want to live forever.”
Mind-reading Technology Speeds Ahead
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reading-technology-speeds-ahead/
“Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode someone’s thoughts.”
Engineering a memory with LTD and LTP
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7509/full/nature13294.html
“It has been proposed that memories are encoded by modification of synaptic strengths through cellular mechanisms such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD).”
MIT scientists implant a false memory into a mouse’s brain
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/inception-mit-scientists-implant-a-false-memory-into-a-mouses-brain/2013/07/25/47bdee7a-f49a-11e2-a2f1-a7acf9bd5d3a_story.html
“Sometime soon, a lab mouse could wake up thinking he had snuggled up to a girl mouse the night before. But he hadn’t. The memory would be fake.”
If your brain were a computer, how much storage space would it have?
http://io9.com/if-your-brain-were-a-computer-how-much-storage-space-w-509687776
“The comparison between the human brain and a computer is not a perfect one, but it does lend itself to some interesting lines of inquiry. For instance: what is the storage capacity of your brain?”
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