Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that humans will eventually be able to download their brains into robots to preserve their memories and characteristics in another form, he tells Business Insider’s parent company.
The technology is a gradual evolution of computer memory as we’ve already “amplified our human brains massively with computers,” he said.
The concept of prolonging human life by downloading consciousnesses into synthetic bodies has been a fixture of science-fiction for decades. Some experts today believe that “mind uploading” technology could, in fact, be feasible one day but the timeline is incredibly unclear.
Princeton Neurology Professor Michael S.A. Graziano wrote a WSJ piece in 2019 exploring the same subject. Creating the artificial brain would be relatively straightforward, Graziano said, but the remaining problem is how to build a scanner that doesn’t kill the subject (the people from Upload certainly haven’t figured it out).
Musk has already forayed into this space with his brain-chip startup Neuralink, which is currently working to develop “brain-machine interfaces” that can store human memories.
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