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Over the years I have read a number of stories and watched movies about how we will be able to upload our brains into computers but I have a couple of problems with that. I will go through these problems first and then I will outline another idea that might be able to achieve this goal.

First, computers cannot think despite what the popular press and movies and TV shows tell us. Well, at least with their current architecture and I wrote a post about this a few weeks ago ([Computers Cannot Think (Yet)](https://steemit.com/steemstem/@procrastilearner/computers-cannot-think-yet)).

Second, the way the upload process is usually described seems to me like it will only be a copy of the brain and will not be the person itself. The person is simply not being transferred.

When the original brain dies that person will be gone and the uploaded entity will only be someone else with the same memories as the deceased person. This uploaded entity will be tricked into believing that it is the same person. In fact, it would know this and might even feel like an imposter.

I like to think that there is another way of doing this and it lies more along the lines of integrating the brain with the new artificial neural architecture.

Note that I don't use the word computer here because for this to work a whole new architecture will need to be developed. One that is more like a neural net and less like the mechanical and deterministic computer circuits that we use today.

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First, imagine the character Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy. The canon of the story is that the attachment on his head is used to control a levitating arrow that kills his enemies.

Instead I like to imagine that it is the 3rd "half" of his brain.

We humans have brains that are split into two, the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. These two hemispheres are connected to each other by the [corpus callosum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum), a network of 200-250 million fibers that apparently help the two halves communicate.

What if, when humans finally develop an artificial neural network that we attach it to the crown of our heads and route hundreds of millions of connections down into the corpus callosum between the two brain halves. This would give us the 3rd "half" of our brains.

At first it would feel weird having this new mind region but over the course of the next weeks and months and years it would be steadily integrated into both your mind and personality.

If this new artificial brain had more capabilities like a much higher IQ and perfect memory then it would eventually become the dominant part of your mind. In the first year it might make up 5% of your mind's content with 95% still being in the organic brain.

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In year ten it might encompass 95% of your mind's content and the organic parts would only be 5% of your mind.

#### Closing Words
When the day eventually comes and the human host dies the artificial brain would still be able to carry on. If the integration was successful it would have integrated most, if not all, of the memories that were in the old brain and the feeling of loss would be minimal.

The still functioning artificial brain would not be an imposter, it would be you.

The only trick then is getting this artificial brain into a new body (but that is a topic for another post). 

*Thank you for reading my post.*

#### Post Sources
[1] [Artificial brain.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain)
[2] [Cerebral hemisphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hemisphere)
[3] [Corpus callosum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum)