How uploading our minds to a computer might become possible
Recent television series such as Black Mirror and Upload, as well as some games, demonstrate our continued fascination with this idea.
- Recent television series such as Black Mirror and Upload, as well as some games, demonstrate our continued fascination with this idea.
- Recent developments in science and technology are taking us closer to a time when mind uploading could graduate from science fiction to reality.
- Detailed scans of the brain and its activity would allow us to reproduce a person’s biological brain, and potentially mind, in a computer.
Several approaches
- This would gather the data needed to produce a working copy of a brain.
- So, how likely is it that whole brain emulation, and potentially mind uploading, will be achieved?
- Our minds, and particularly consciousness, are often considered something greater and more ephemeral than a function of the biological brain.
Modifying the brain
- Such developments, along with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), are allowing us to better decipher brain waves.
- In the future, they may well allow us to “write to” or modify the brain.
- No one knows for certain how long it might take to emulate the human brain.