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August 02, 2007
Slice up your brain for eternal life
Is it possible to upload a mind into a computer?
The question is not quite as far fetched as it might seem. Neural simulations are nothing new. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley (Nobel prize winners in 1963) began working on these sorts of problems way back in 1952. IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have conducted research in the field.
At the conference TransVision 2007 in Chicago Anders Sandberg, as a computational neuroscientist, gave a speech on what the scientific opportunities and drawbacks are for uploading a mind. Will true immortality be achieved by computer emulation?
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Posted by Waldemar at August 2, 2007 09:00 AM