Jun 27, 2023
How uploading our minds to a computer might become possible
Posted by Keith Wiley in categories: biological, computing, neuroscience
The idea that our mind could live on in another form after our physical body dies has been a recurring theme in science fiction since the 1950s. Recent television series such as Black Mirror and Upload, as well as some games, demonstrate our continued fascination with this idea. The concept is known as mind uploading.
Recent developments in science and technology are taking us closer to a time when mind uploading could graduate from science fiction to reality.
In 2016, BBC Horizon screened a programme called The Immortalist, in which a
Russian millionaire unveiled his plans to work with neuroscientists, robot builders and other experts to create technology that would allow us to upload our minds to a computer in order to live forever.
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