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It’s amazing to think that this three pound universe contains roughly the same number of neurons as the Milky Way has stars. What was once thought of as merely as an organ whose function was to cool the blood is now known to be so complex that it consumes a fifth of our energy intake. What’s more amazing is that when I was younger, the things researchers are doing routinely in labs today would have been consider outrageous. Thought transference, people moving objects with the power of their minds, watching videos of the dreams of sleeping subjects; these were once firmly in the realm of what was called “woo-woo” science, and such it was, until the day dawned when machines and techniques were developed enabling minds to link with computers and accomplish the formerly impossible. And now we’re on the verge of a brave new world where memories and experiences will be able to be transferred from one mind to another, and even a person’s entire brain patterns including their consciousness may soon be uploadable to a more permanent and more stable medium. Immortality may be in our grasp at last.
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