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Marty and Holly on Brain Uploads in ‘The Terminal Experiment’

The Science in The Fiction

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The Complexity of the Brain

The brain is an infinitely complicated organism I feel like it would almost be easier to to replicate a human body than it would be a human brain. Let's say we could fully scan all the detailed physical information of your heart and then print yourheart and then do the same for your brain but the brain is right now this process center that we you know where our consciousness is come comes from. We're not going to expect the heart to become magically self-aware on top of doing its job of pumping Right whereas the brain does his job of like processing information to make things happen in our body nerve impulses Like it's got a job too but maybe it can do that job without being self-aware

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