Are we on the verge of uploading human consciousness?
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Transferring human consciousness into a machine has long been a popular motif in science fiction, but for now, seems like a far-off dream. However, Prof Masataka Watanabe at the University of Tokyo believes we\\u2019re on the cusp of making mind uploading a reality.
Prof Watanabe proposes a new type of brain\\u2012machine interface that is capable of fully reconstructing transhemispheric connectivity, leading to a \\u2018seamless\\u2019 mind uploading procedure while the brains owner is still alive.
Read more about this work in Research Features.
Read Prof Watanabe's original publication "From Biological to Artificial Consciousness": https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91138-6
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