Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?

A video on YouTube. In Explainers, a Krater category.

Summary by Krater

An exploration of the scientific and philosophical challenges of mind uploading, discussing the assumptions of physicalism, scanability, and computability, and the recent efforts to map mouse brain tissue.

From the video

Answers: Can we upload our minds into a computer?

Mind uploading
Physicalism
Brain connectome mapping
Neuron structure and function
Digital immortality

What it concludes

Mind uploading is based on three assumptions: physicalism, scanability, and computability.
Mapping a whole human brain would require repeating the mouse brain mapping effort a million times.
Successful mind uploading would be functional immortality, though subject to risks like corrupted scans or infinite psychological breakdowns.

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