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A scene from R.U.R., showing three robots (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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Many engineers, including me, think that some time around 2050, we
will be able to make very high quality links between the brains and
machines. To such an extent that it will thereafter be possible (albeit
expensive for some years) to arrange that most of your mind – your
thinking, memories, even sensations and emotions, could reside mainly in
the machine world. Some (perhaps some memories that are rarely
remembered for example) may not be suited to such external
accessibility, but the majority should be.
The main aim of this research area is to design electronic solutions
to immortality. But actually, that is only one application, and I have
discussed electronic immortality a few times now :
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