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
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“Throughout history, people have compared the brain to different inventions.”
Scientists Are Convinced Mind Transfer Is the Key to Immortality
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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?
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“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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