{"id":96364,"date":"2019-09-18T00:03:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/how-close-are-we-to-downloading-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2019-09-18T00:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:03:02","slug":"how-close-are-we-to-downloading-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/how-close-are-we-to-downloading-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"How Close Are We to Downloading the Human Brain?"},"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\/DE5e5zF6a-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Downloading your brain may seem like science fiction, but some neuroscientists think it\u2019s not only possible, but that we\u2019ve already started down a path to one day make it a reality. So, how close are we to downloading a human brain?<\/p>\n<p>How Close Are We to Fusion Energy? \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZW_YCWLyv6A\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZW_YCWLyv6A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve Put a Worm\u2019s Mind in a Lego Robot\u2019s Body<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399\/?no-is\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/weve-put-worms-min\u2026399\/?no-is<\/a><br \/> \u201cA wheeled Lego robot may not look like a worm, but it \u2018thinks\u2019 like one after programmers gave it the neuron connections in a C. elegans roundworm\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crumb of Mouse Brain Reconstructed in Full Detail<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/crumb-of-mouse-brain-reconstructed-in-full-detail-1.18105\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/crumb-of-mouse-brain-reconstruct\u2026il-1.18105<\/a><br \/> \u201cThe resulting three-dimensional map is the first complete reconstruction of a piece of tissue in the mammalian neocortex, the most recently evolved region of the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Immortalist: Uploading the Mind to a Computer<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-35786771\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-35786771<\/a><br \/> \u201cWithin the next 30 years,\u201d promises Dmitry Itskov, \u201cI am going to make sure that we can all live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/how-close-are-we-to-downloading-the-human-brain\">Continue reading \u201cHow Close Are We to Downloading the Human Brain?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading your brain may seem like science fiction, but some neuroscientists think it\u2019s not only possible, but that we\u2019ve already started down a path to one day make it a reality. So, how close are we to downloading a human brain? How Close Are We to Fusion Energy? \u2014 https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZW_YCWLyv6A We\u2019ve Put a Worm\u2019s Mind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96364","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=96364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}