New efforts to understand the brain are generating methods that make “mind uploading” seem at least a bit more plausible. Here is a look at how close, and far, we are to each requirement for keeping the brain alive after death.

New efforts to understand the brain are generating methods that make “mind uploading” seem at least a bit more plausible. Here is a look at how close, and far, we are to each requirement for keeping the brain alive after death. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/03/us/13immortality-explainer.html?action=%5B%27click%27%5D&contentCollection=%5B%27Art+%26+Design%27%5D&module=%5B%27MostPopularFB%27%5D&version=%5B%27Full%27%5D&region=%5B%27Marginalia%27%5D&src=%5B%27me%27%5D&pgtype=%5B%27article%27%5D