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Current biomedical and neuropsychological thinking is that the human mind is a product of the information processing of this neural network. To use an analogy from computer science, if the neural network of the brain can be thought of as hardware, then the human mind is the software running on it.
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23 May 08
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27 Apr 08
Yukon syluse to creae illustration to guide lunchhour presentation - transferring portions of the brain -- don't forget the roll of avatars
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mind uploading (also occasionally referred to by other terms such as mind transfer, whole brain emulation, or whole body emulation) refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human mind to an artificial substrate,
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09 Nov 07
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08 Nov 07
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Blue Brain Project and computational issues
On June 6, 2005 IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne announced the launch of a project to build a complete simulation of the human brain, entitled the "Blue Brain Project".[2] The project will use a supercomputer based on IBM's Blue Gene design to map the entire electrical circuitry of the brain.
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Serial sectioning
A likely method for mind uploading is serial sectioning, in which the brain tissue and perhaps other parts of the nervous system are frozen, sliced apart or ablated layer by layer
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Nanotechnology
A more advanced hypothetical technique that would require nanotechnology might involve infiltrating the intact brain with a network of cell-sized machines to "read" the structure and activity of the brain in situ, much like current-day electrode meshes but on a much finer and more sophisticated scale.
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Once a given person's brain is mapped, it is replaced piece-by-piece with computer devices which perform the exact same function as the regions preceding them, after which the patient is allowed to regain consciousness and validate that there has not been some radical upheaval within his own subjective experience of reality. At this point, the patient's brain is immediately "re-mapped" and another piece is replaced, and so on in this fashion until, the patient exists on a purely hardware medium and can be safely extricated from the remaining organic body.
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However, critics contend[citation needed] that, given the significant level of synergy involved throughout the neural plexus, alteration of any given cell that is functionally correspondent with (a) neighboring cell(s) may well result in an alteration of its electrical and chemical properties that would not have existed without interference, and so the true individual's signature is lost.
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Brain imaging
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advanced neuroimaging technology to build a detailed three-dimensional model of the brain using non-invasive methods.
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Viral mapping
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the use of genetically engineered viruses to attach to synaptic junctions, and then release energy-emitting molecular compounds
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effectively duplicated "for all practical purposes" by merely duplicating how it responds to specific external stimuli.
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This leads into even deeper philosophical questions of what the "self" is.
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