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Can you upload a human mind into a computer? A neuroscientist ponders what’s possible

  • Written by Dobromir Rahnev, Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageThe human brain has 86 billion neurons that make trillions of connections.Grafissimo/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

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