Now that they have begun mapping the human connectome with the advent of the Human Connectome Project, would we able to resurrect the dead?
The human genome, comprising of all the genetic information in the human can already be mapped with the human genome sequencing technique. The connectome, which is a complete map of all the neural network in the brain, may take some time. This is a tough task because it needs to untangle quite a mess of wiring of neural pathways in the human brain. The brain contains about 100 billion neurons and 150 trillion synapses, which are the connections between the neurons.
These neural wiring's, the pathways of all neural activity. are what contain the memories, feeling and perceptions in the brain: all the information that makes up the human personality, or the equivalent of a human 'self'.
{ I should point out here that while the self by itself is an illusion, something which is not what is seems, but very much there, the consciousness or the stream of neural activity that seems to be permeate this illusory self is a delusion which is something that does not exit. Remember: there is no such thing as a mind.}
Once the complete connectome is mapped and all that information can be recovered from a brain, it should be easy enough to install this information to a clone prepared from the genome of the person you want to resurrect.
It is like 'booting' up a computer with software.
But once accomplished, it is also like having a backup for your connectome and booting up a healthy clone of yourself , by installing your 'software-connectome' into new 'hardware-clone' with a fresh brain and body.
If you haven't had your complete genome sequenced, it's time you did. And once mapping the connectome is as cheap and as easy as mapping the genome, you would have the prospect of living forever.
So, keep your brain healthy for a couple of decades, or until the time that they can recover your connectome from a dead brain.
You could live for as long as you want to.
More in the book ...
The human genome, comprising of all the genetic information in the human can already be mapped with the human genome sequencing technique. The connectome, which is a complete map of all the neural network in the brain, may take some time. This is a tough task because it needs to untangle quite a mess of wiring of neural pathways in the human brain. The brain contains about 100 billion neurons and 150 trillion synapses, which are the connections between the neurons.
These neural wiring's, the pathways of all neural activity. are what contain the memories, feeling and perceptions in the brain: all the information that makes up the human personality, or the equivalent of a human 'self'.
{ I should point out here that while the self by itself is an illusion, something which is not what is seems, but very much there, the consciousness or the stream of neural activity that seems to be permeate this illusory self is a delusion which is something that does not exit. Remember: there is no such thing as a mind.}
Once the complete connectome is mapped and all that information can be recovered from a brain, it should be easy enough to install this information to a clone prepared from the genome of the person you want to resurrect.
It is like 'booting' up a computer with software.
But once accomplished, it is also like having a backup for your connectome and booting up a healthy clone of yourself , by installing your 'software-connectome' into new 'hardware-clone' with a fresh brain and body.
If you haven't had your complete genome sequenced, it's time you did. And once mapping the connectome is as cheap and as easy as mapping the genome, you would have the prospect of living forever.
So, keep your brain healthy for a couple of decades, or until the time that they can recover your connectome from a dead brain.
You could live for as long as you want to.
More in the book ...
