Uploading your mind to a computer might one day let humans cheat death. The technology’s a long way off, but researchers are working on closing that gap. This episode was brought to you and inspired by the movie Self/less.
Self/less trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71fWtJXEI0Q
Hosted by: Hank Green
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Sources:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-simulates-530-billon-neurons-100-trillion-synapses-on-worlds-fastest-supercomputer
http://www.modha.org/blog/SC12/RJ10502.pdf
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/c-elegans-connectome/
http://jmicro.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/1/37
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943881400035X
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.3334.pdf
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