e usually think of consciousness in terms of the subjective inner states experienced by humans, such as emotion, thought, perception, and self-awareness.Scientists from a variety of academic disciplines, from psychology to philosophy, neuroscience to mathematics, have been debating how these conscious phenomena arise in the brain.Neuroscientists have investigated the relationship between...
ransferring human consciousness into a machine -or to put it another way, mind uploading -has long been a popular motif in science fiction, but for now, seems like a far-off dream.However, a professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo believes we're on the cusp of making mind uploading a reality, moreover, in a seamless operation using a brainmachine interface while the...