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Ep18 "Could you upload your brain to live forever?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Complexity of the Brain

The brain is the most complex device we have ever discovered. It's probably a zetabyte of data, which is maybe around a tenth of the computational capacity of our planet right now. We're nowhere close to copying the human brain because the detailed structure of it is so enormous. There may be physics happening in the brain that don't make it as easy as copy pasting a giant document.

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