Haha! That's exactly what I thought when I read the headline of this article.

What's the difference? Your brain is simply a collection of one hundred billion cells that tend to act in simple and predictable patterns. If you can accurately recreate their ultra structure and behavior, you can simulate everything that matters.

Due to Moore's law, computers increase in power at a nearly exponential rate. Eventually, perhaps with quantum computers, it may be possible to simulate every atom in the human brain. Every atom, every molecule, protein, etc.

I work with a group of neuroscientists at top universities including MIT and Harvard. Most of these neuroscientists are secretly obsessed with the idea of uploading their minds to a computer. In fact, for many of them, it is why they do what they do.

I actually read that book just a month or two ago. It was the first thing I thought of when I heard Russia was entering Ukraine.

I work in the healthcare field and I know every important provision of the PPACA front to back. I also know how incredibly destructive our current system is. Most people like yourself don't realize how bad things actually are. My only complaint with the PPACA is that it just doesn't go far enough. Single payer…

Keeping the government running is not a damned "personal agenda". The batshit lunatic republicans are doing this because they know that this is basically the last time they are going to control any part of the government (the house) because of changing demographics, and shutting down the government is the only option…

That's largely not true. Simply upping the number of megapixels doesn't increase photo quality in and of itself. For example, when I zoom in to photos on the 8Mp camera in my iphone 5 it looks significantly better then when I zoom in to photos on my 10Mp cheap point and shoot (both viewed from a professionally…

It's my ride, man.

The reason for this is that we are dumb enough to add acetaminophen to most of our prescription painkillers more to "prevent abuse" than to ease pain. Not only that, but we put far too much acetaminophen in them. As a former addict who has been sober for years now, I remember at one point downing an entire bottle of…

Unfortunately this would only effect viral particles in the blood stream. It would not harm viruses that have already infected cells, and they would keep on pumping out more viruses or remain in a temporarily dormant state. This type of treatment would only be effective combined with other treatments.

This actually happens all the time in nature. The Tobacco Mosaic Virus for example, will totally and spontaneously form in a solution of it's constituent proteins + it's RNA.