Organic Processers

Does the soul exist within a synthetic consciousness? or is the soul something even man can create?

"A Florida scientist has developed a "brain" in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.
The "living computer" was grown from 25,000 neurons extracted from a rat's brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish." - CNN Website

What will it mean when the time comes where technology has become advanced enough to communicate with the brain directly and modify neural networks to allow advanced learning among other things. What will it mean when the memory of a mind is able to be downloaded and uploaded from one body to another? Will this be the technology that allows immortality? Apparently we are not far from discovering the answer to a few of these questions. I guess this idea is nothing new, but rather something seen on the matrix, but the concept itself seems possible to an extent. If this layer of 25,000 neurons can fly a plane, what can a humans mind that possesses 100 billion neurons do with the correct software? The possibilities are endless and I can see this being the cure and problem for so many things, the potential for abuse is of course endless as is the potential for goodness. I believe that someday when mankind fully understands how the mind's operating system works, we will unlock many abilities and perhaps we will become more and more like robots, doing advanced calculations and simulations.

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"I was dreaming. Everything... Everything was so horribly dry, even peoples' hearts. From far away, as I watched the people who lived there, I always found myself wondering how and why could they possibly keep on living. What motivation did they have that would get up everyday, no matter what, for the rest of their lives?" - Vash