Humans have yearned for immortality for as long as we‘ve understood our fragile permanence. But while dodging the Grim Reaper was once relegated to the realm of religious myth, now technology is ...

The concept of uploading an animal brain to a computer has seen some progress, albeit with significant caveats. Scientists have successfully simulated the brain of Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1mm-long ...

Physicist Richard Jones explains transferring one’s mind to a computer could be possible in a few decades, but that doesn’t mean we should. Referred to as transhumanism, it is the belief that science ...

The concept, cool yet maybe a little creepy, is known as mind uploading. Think of it as a way to create a copy of your brain, a transmission of your mind and consciousness into a computer. There you ...

This is as good as the real thing, according to Alex Wissner-Gross, a computer scientist and Eon’s cofounder: “What you are seeing is not an animation,” Wissner-Gross wrote in a Medium post following ...

Many people dream about the possibility of living forever. Watching their kids grow up and achieve their dreams alongside their grandchildren has only been wishful thinking, but thanks to the ...

READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? — Richard Dixon. We often imagine that human ...

The relationship between the digital computer and the human brain is a hot topic recently. Last week I reported on the perspective of an engineer—specifically, Karim Arabi, vice president of ...