Jun 20, 2015
What Happens When We Upload Our Minds? — Maddie Stone | Motherboard
Posted by Seb in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, neuroscience
“In a sense, all four pillars of the mind-uploading roadmap—mapping the brain’s structure and function, creating the software and hardware to emulate it—are now areas of active research. If we take Koene’s optimistic view, within a decade, we may have the technological capacity to fully map and emulate a very simple brain—say, that of a Drosophila fruit fly, which contains roughly 100 thousand neurons. ”