{"id":122057,"date":"2021-04-28T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/how-close-are-we-to-uploading-our-minds-michael-s-a-graziano"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:22:43","slug":"how-close-are-we-to-uploading-our-minds-michael-s-a-graziano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/how-close-are-we-to-uploading-our-minds-michael-s-a-graziano","title":{"rendered":"How close are we to uploading our minds? \u2014 Michael S.A. Graziano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DWnvx1NYUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It points out that to measure down to the synapse the energy needed would melt the tissue of your head.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Investigate the possibility of scanning the human brain and uploading our minds and consciousness to a digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a future where nobody dies\u2014 instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and contributing to the biological world. Mind-uploading has powerful appeal\u2014 but what would it actually take to scan a person\u2019s brain and upload their mind? Michael S. A. Graziano explores the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson by Michael S. A. Graziano, directed by Lobster Studio.<\/p>\n<p>Animator\u2019s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lobsterstudio.tv.\">https:\/\/www.lobsterstudio.tv.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/how-close-are-we-to-uploading-our-minds-michael-s-a-graziano\">Continue reading \u201cHow close are we to uploading our minds? \u2014 Michael S.A. Graziano\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It points out that to measure down to the synapse the energy needed would melt the tissue of your head. Investigate the possibility of scanning the human brain and uploading our minds and consciousness to a digital world. Imagine a future where nobody dies\u2014 instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}