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Through modern technology, it is now possible to upload a brain to a computer. Martine Rothblatt and Ray Kurweil believe that human beings can actually live forever through the utilization of technological advancements.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
5/18/2015 (1 decade ago)
Published in Technology
Keywords: Technology, Brain, Health, Mind Files, Digital
MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - During a very recent interview at eMerge Americas, the founder of Sirius Satellite Radio and CEO of United Therapeutics Martine Rothblatt shared that, "Taking a mind and offloading it to software is consistent with physics, and it's something that I think will be done in this century."
One of the first phases or stages in the process includes preserving an individual's brain in software to keep them alive, even after the body has died.
United Therapeutics, Martine Rothblatt 's company, participates in work such as organ transplanting; the CEO stated that her experience in this specific field has helped shape her analysis and perspectives on the subject.
Rothbatt continued to explain, "I think it was not a very big stretch for me to ask myself: 'What if you transplanted their minds into software? Would they be able to stay alive in the software while perhaps technology continued to advance?'"
She added that, "And just like we regenerate lungs and we regenerate hearts, perhaps, ultimately, people can regenerate brain tissue so their minds can rewritten into brain tissue."
It is to be understood that uploading a human brain into software is not yet an apparent reality. However, bits and parcels of a person's habit and mannerism can be confined and stored by collecting data from their digital life, according to Rothblatt.
Rothblatt stated that she has also created a nonprofit where people can actually store their "mind files."
"All of these things are kept in a mind file and so in the future when software does catch up with Kurzweil's predictions, all of their thoughts and memories will be there [for that use]," Rothblatt added.
These "mind files" are where people can put records of their digital life, including information from their Facebook, Google and other social media posts.
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