It's Alive, Ctd.

18 Nov 2008 04:32 pm

Suderman gets amped up by Carr's post on a group of scientists trying to replicate a human brain inside a computer:

I’ve said for years that I’ll fight Glenn Reynolds to be the first in line to upload my consciousness, and if two academic geeks want to Xerox my brain, I’m down for that too. As for the "profound societal consequences," that sounds like an understatement to me. Since these copies would be digital, presumably it would be possible to make as many as you’d want, and then to trade and share them accordingly. Would you own the rights to scans of your brain? And how would you protect those rights? Would there be a Napster for brain copies? Would the government require everyone to log copies of their brains in some super scary database? Would you be able to carry around a copy of your brain with you, on your iPhone, or maybe just access it directly from some wireless thingy implanted in your noggin?

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