The concept of uploading an animal brain to a computer has seen some progress, albeit with significant caveats. Scientists have successfully simulated the brain of Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1mm-long ...

Physicist Richard Jones explains transferring one’s mind to a computer could be possible in a few decades, but that doesn’t mean we should. Referred to as transhumanism, it is the belief that science ...

The concept, cool yet maybe a little creepy, is known as mind uploading. Think of it as a way to create a copy of your brain, a transmission of your mind and consciousness into a computer. There you ...

READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? — Richard Dixon. We often imagine that human ...

San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… We'd call this "huge ...

Humans have yearned for immortality for as long as we‘ve understood our fragile permanence. But while dodging the Grim Reaper was once relegated to the realm of religious myth, now technology is ...

The idea that our mind could live on in another form after our physical body dies has been a recurring theme in science fiction since the 1950s. Recent television series such as Black Mirror and ...