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William Gibson is known for his futuristic visions of such things; read his trio of books, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. While the hardware aspects of those stories are now reather dated, the overall concepts are still ahead of us. Another author who touched on this concept is Poul Anderson, in his Heechee series; the idea being that the ultimate form of "health insurance" provides for the complete transfer of consciousness into a digital medium, for either temporary or perma…

(Quote) ROFL! Yes, duplicating the functions of the human brain is the "holy grail" of computer science, but it will take many generation before any comparison will be relevant. I believe that as we discover more about how our brains interact with our minds , we will also learn to optimize our mental functions to perhaps double our current common capacity (which will leave us another 80% to go!). Such training will become incorporated into primary, or even pre-school education, so that the high…