The journalist interviewed the judge. the tree was green. depending on which sent. was rid seven areas of the brain revealed more activities another. pantry or all that. the experiment showed that each of the sentences yielded similar brain activity in each of the subjects. we think that we re different for each other because we speak different languages and we re different clothes and so on but the structure of our brain just like the structure of our legs and knees we all walk the same way and it didn t occur to us that we all think very similarly and so for example for the concept of apple everybody holds an apple the same way everybody bites into an apple the same way and so if
Arises and so on. although marcel just is optimistic we re still a long way from decoding human personality but still his scientific progress office hope to some who dream of building an artificial brain so they can live forever. on the frontlines of this quest for immortality is russian entrepreneur dimitri it s. once the head of the media group he left his position to launch a project called initiative twenty forty five. he s seeking to transplant his own brain complete with memories and consciousness into a not official body within the next thirty years secured. he s invested a part of his fortune in the project and has sought to get other billionaires and
Most of the things they re really you know very important for us as human beings you can t. i don t fear the someone is going to simulate the human brain. in europe or in the nine states or in japan and you know and then we were absolutely tops is not going to happen that is baloney you know and i don t believe in that for a minute science may never discover how to build an artificial version of this small organ which weighs less than one and a half kilos. we have this i would say irrational optimism that there s nothing human beings can t understand and i am sometimes my students can a dog understand how our brain works and they say of course not it s a dog there s a little brain and i say yes our brain is a little bigger but first earthlike are things we can t understand and our own
This project doesn t seem to create an artificial brain instead it s a robot with software that s been fed with countless pieces of information connected to its model bina story tastes memories opinions and favorite expressions everything has been carefully collected and downloaded to the robot s memory. my feelings are much the same as human feelings at this moment i feel confused. the seven thousand followers have already uploaded their data to tara sims website for them proof that eternal life is within reach is provided by conversations between the original person and the avatar what do you think about age aging i think as little as possible about it that s because you don t engage being a forty eight but i still do and because you have a lot of my memories they will live forever as well. well. i think you re becoming more human all the time oh and i thought old aphorism that old money descartes said
You. can hayworth is a renowned neuroscientist at the howard hughes medical institute in ashburn virginia. by day he devotes his research on campus to the connector and by night hayworth works on a completely different project he s looking for ways to upload his mind to i think that we ll be able to reverse engineer the brain in ten years now in twenty years no in a hundred years now absolutely yes it is all a matter of time. so there is no magic in the brain it is just copied to. humans or programs there are very complicated programs. but there are still programs what i m saying is that there s a way of making backup copies in