Mind Set Daily

Topic covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Download Your Memories - Retrieve Them Later" Scientists are getting closer to replicating the properties of the brain in computers. Could human memories be uploaded and stored -- just like data -- in a computer? Scientists say not now, but in the coming decades it’s likely we’ll be able to store our memories in a way that allows us to retrieve them later. Long the stuff of science fiction novels, this kind of merger between computer technology and the human brain is being pushed by new findings in neuroscience, as well as advances in computer science and artificial intelligence. The past work by scientists has involved shutting down neurons in the brain, they could then play back activity patterns and see how it responds. You need to do more than add a control, they want to be able to read out and build a map at the molecular level of the brain. Scientists have opened a whole number of fronts on these technologies, but is your brain open and ready for dow