We can implant a computer control inside a disabled person's brain,
but can we implant a brain inside a computer?
Swiss researchers, working on something they call the Blue
Brain project, claim they can build a fully-functioning replica
of the human brain by 2020. In the British newspaper The
Daily Mail, Michael Hanlon quotes neuroscientist Henry
Markram as saying that he can build an electronic human
brain "within ten years."
This brings up ethical questions that are new for our species:
If there's a brain, is there also a
soul?
Would turning off the computer be equated with committing
murder? Would reprogramming it be torture? We have
enough
trouble with the internet without delving into those depths!
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