Mind Uploading
| Recently Stephen Hawking, in a talk at the premiere of the documentary film about his life, said that brain "could exist outside the body" and like a program, could be copied onto a computer. |
Professor Stephen Hawking in a talk at the premiere of the documentary film about his life, said that brain "could exist outside the body" and like a program, could be copied onto a computer.
Speaking at the Cambridge Film Festival, The 71-year-old Professor, author of A Brief History of Time
, said that it could be possible for the human brain to exist outside the body, but this is way beyond our present capabilities.| Related articles |
Hawking was cautionary however, noting that the technology is out of our reach for now, "This is way beyond out present capabilities. I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark."
Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, and given only a few years to live by doctors has gone on to revolutionize cosmology and physics. Among his quests is work to harmonize quantum physics with Einstein's theory of relativity - a unified theory
. His life is the subject of the new documentary, "Hawking."SOURCE My Science Academy
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