China’s latest neuromorphic project has pushed a once speculative idea into the realm of claimed reality: a monkey’s brain activity, recreated inside a supercomputer. The country’s researchers say ...

Many futurists have speculated that we may one day be able to scan the human brain and “upload” it to a computer. Some believe this could allow humans to live on after death in digital form, or ...

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 ...

Computer scientists and artificial intelligence specialists are developing programs that would digitize the brain. Nectome, a neuroscience startup, believes that brains could be uploaded to computers.

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 MIT Media Lab will sever ties with a brain-embalming company that promoted euthanasia to people hoping for digital immortality through “brain uploads.” The startup, called Nectome, had raised more ...