Is it Possible to Transfer Consciousness?
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A study was conducted by UCLA scientists to determine what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness.
Martin Monti and his colleagues at UCLA used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the flow of information in the brains of 12 healthy volunteers changed as they lost consciousness under anesthesia with propofol. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 31 and were evenly divided between men and women.
The psychologists analyzed the "network properties" of the subjects' brains using a branch of mathematics known as graph theory, which is often used to study air-traffic patterns, information on the Internet and social groups, among other topics.
So is it possible to transfer that consciousness to another body or to a neural network? While this may be the subject of sci-fi movies like Avatar or the Matrix series, there are groups actively trying to see if this can be achieved.
Martin Monti and his colleagues at UCLA used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the flow of information in the brains of 12 healthy volunteers changed as they lost consciousness under anesthesia with propofol. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 31 and were evenly divided between men and women.
The psychologists analyzed the "network properties" of the subjects' brains using a branch of mathematics known as graph theory, which is often used to study air-traffic patterns, information on the Internet and social groups, among other topics.
So is it possible to transfer that consciousness to another body or to a neural network? While this may be the subject of sci-fi movies like Avatar or the Matrix series, there are groups actively trying to see if this can be achieved.
