We Can’t Upload You, Sorry
Why we can’t put your mind in the machine
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6 min readMay 5, 2021
Immortality awaits. As you draw your dying breath, we will inject a preservative into your brain that will fix in place every one of the trillion or so connections between your 86 billion neurons. We will then trace those wires, building the complete map of your brain’s connections, your “connectome”. Upload that complete wiring diagram to a…
