You could live forever as a computer

Humans could download their brain on to a computer and live forever inside a machine, a Cambridge neuroscientist has claimed. Dr Hannah Critchlow said that if a computer could be built to recreate the 100 trillion connections in the brain it would be possible to exist inside a programme.Dr Critchlow, who spoke at the Hay Festival on "busting brain myths" said that, although the brain was enormously complex, it worked like a large circuit board and scientists were beginning to understand the fun...