Emma Kennedy
Emma Kennedy
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Can't I upload my consciousness...yet?

The concept of eternal life is a long-standing fantasy in science fiction, but will it ever be possible to upload our consciousness to an external host – or even a robot? Will there be a day when we can upload the very essence of our being, the things that make us human, into some kind of machine? And if we could, what would it do to humanity?

To find out, I’m joined today by Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Douglas Rushkoff, Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at the City University of New York, Queens College.

You can listen to the full episode here: https://listen.podmasters.uk/whylinktree

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