As long as people have been alive, they've wanted to stay alive. But unlike finding the fountain of youth or becoming a vampire, uploading your brain to a computer or the cloud might actually be possible. Theoretically, we already know how to do it, and Elon Musk is even trying a brain implant with Neuralink. But technically, we have a long way to go. We explain the main technological advancements that we'll need to make whole brain emulation a reality.

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What It'll Take To Upload Our Brains To A Computer