TY - GEN

T1 - When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?

AU - Thierry, Guillaume

PY - 2022/6/9

Y1 - 2022/6/9

N2 - (Part of Life's Big Questions: series seeking to answer our readers' nagging questions about life, love, death and the universe.)READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? Richard Dixon.We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however, is much more complicated. For starters, we don’t actually know how much information the human brain can hold.

AB - (Part of Life's Big Questions: series seeking to answer our readers' nagging questions about life, love, death and the universe.)READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? Richard Dixon.We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however, is much more complicated. For starters, we don’t actually know how much information the human brain can hold.

KW - Cognition

KW - Engagement

M3 - Article

JO - The Conversation

JF - The Conversation

ER -