newscientist.com — The method is being developed (in mice, so far) to better understand the architecture of the brain. This work is merely the first step towards uploading the contents of human brains - memories, emotions and all - onto a computer.
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allahuakbarJun 16, 2008
That s**t blows my mind - that's all I can say about that.
thenovascotianJun 16, 2008
Can you actually imagine living forever. After you've seen everything...(and I mean everything), you'd eventually get so bored you would just hang around for eternity trying to find ways to kill yourself. Alan Watts described reality as polarity. You would not know bad unless you knew good, black without white and of course, life without death and birth. Also, if I put a CD in my computer and rip it, the information hasn't moved off the CD to the computer. It's just been copied, the CD is still the same CD. So if I did this when I was alive, I would still continue to live and eventually die. This is completely useless science. Or at least useless in these terms.
jdenigmaJun 17, 2008
I really don't want to die. It scares the s**t out of me. Too bad though that all of us alive right now were probably born just a little too soon :-(
akshayxyzJun 17, 2008
@ozydingo.Cant be more accurate than that. My mind also thinks (almost) exactly like you put it.. @risingashes. by themselves the copies will not be able to distinguish, which one is original, unless a third person tells them.Also as ozy put it, from then point on, they will be two seperate identities., and perhaps, we have to condition their mind ( before starting the copy), the consequences of copying process and 'how you should behave' when you see another one like you.and that behaviour will be implanted in the brain and hence copied to both in the copying process. So, based on the knowledge (before splitting), post copying both entities can have a handshake and assume new identities..if amoeba's can split, why cant we :). ( ok not best analogy, but still).
reddog_x2000Jun 17, 2008
@There's no difference between an exact "simulation" of the real thing and the "real thing". That depends on your perspective. Lets say someone created a perfect copy of you. Then you were faced with a situation in which one of you would live and one would die. Wouldn't you do everything in your power to make sure that you were the one to survive even though the outcome would be meaningless to anyone else?
gzmaskJun 19, 2008
when this technology available to the mass, ppl will just end up having sex with themselves 247... you know what I mean? when you can copie yourself to someone who likes the same idea........
khanneanlJun 30, 2008
Evolution in action! Bye!