{"id":94911,"date":"2019-08-17T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/whole-brain-emulation-a-giant-step-for-neuroscience"},"modified":"2019-08-17T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:04:30","slug":"whole-brain-emulation-a-giant-step-for-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/whole-brain-emulation-a-giant-step-for-neuroscience","title":{"rendered":"Whole Brain Emulation: A Giant Step for Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whole-brain-emulation-a-giant-step-for-neuroscience2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Machine interfaces today can link up brains to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningbrew.com\/stories\/mind-controlled-upgrade\/?utm_source=morning_brew\" class=\"\">tetris<\/a> together. Like it\u2019s not hard enough to find a place for the L-shaped block without another cerebrum trying to overrule you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s go farther:<\/strong> What if we could create a digital replica of your brain and upload and download it like a piece of software?<\/p>\n<p>This feat, aka whole brain emulation (WBE), is still decades, perhaps more than a century away. Outside of the pure science challenge, it could make us confront some of the most daunting questions about what it means to be human, and where man ends and machine begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine interfaces today can link up brains to play tetris together. Like it\u2019s not hard enough to find a place for the L-shaped block without another cerebrum trying to overrule you. Let\u2019s go farther: What if we could create a digital replica of your brain and upload and download it like a piece of software? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94911","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}