How close are we to uploading our minds? - Michael S. A. Graziano
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Imagine a future where nobody dies— instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and contributing to the biological world. Mind-uploading has powerful appeal— but what would it actually take to scan a person’s brain and upload their mind? Michael S. A. Graziano explores the challenges.
Would you upload your own mind if you could?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Michael S. A. Graziano
- Director Fausto Montanari
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Producer Lobster Studio
- Art Director Fausto Montanari
- Illustrator Fausto Montanari
- Animator Nikolay Ivanov, Teodor Hristov, Petko Modev
- Sound Designer Fabrizio Martini
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Editorial Producer Elizabeth Cox
- Fact-Checker Brian Gutierrez
