Uploading Your Brain: What Will It Take?

Harvard-MIT doctoral candidate Davy Deng outlined the scientific and engineering challenges of uploading a human brain in a TEDx MIT talk.

He framed brain uploading as a substrate-independence problem with three steps: identifying the data that define a mind, measuring them, and running them on another system.

Research tools such as C. elegans brain mapping and expansion microscopy could help create a testable path toward brain emulation.

The topic raises bigger questions about whether consciousness can be separated from the body and moved into a computational system, reshaping neuroscience, AI, and identity.