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Brain downloads 'possible by 2050' [message #156110] Tue, 24 May 2005 06:19 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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As for downloading your mind into a computer, it would be hard to download tissue into a computer. You can't take an image of a brain, you can't "read" it and upload it. It's extremely absurd.
Theoretically, you don't need to. You only need to know the synaptic nodes' connections to each other, and the current values that they hold. You could then create a brain "emulator" and proceed where your brain left off. The precision required for such (both in space and in time, since your brain is ever-changing) would be damn-near impossible, though... at least, in any time soon.
 
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