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

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When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer? / Thierry, Guillaume.
In: The Conversation, 09.06.2022.

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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.

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