Uploading Human Minds - How Close are We? With Randal Koene, PhD.
Release Date: 06/08/2014
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info_outlineRandal Koene, Ph.D. is CEO and Founder of CarbonCopies.org and one of the world's foremost experts on neurology as it relates to uploading human minds. "Uploading" is still the stuff of science fiction, but it's a life mission for Dr. Koene - and legendary futurists and scientists like Ray Kurzweil expect it to be possible within just a few decades of progress.
In this interview, we talk about how far along science has come now, and what aspects of research need to evolve in order to replicate human consciousness in another substrate.
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