This survey asked neuroscientists if memories could be extracted from the dead. This is what they said

It has been a gravity and a terrorist transfer to a computer for a long time, feed for Cyberpunk novels and Emerging companies full of eternity. But a large part of neuroscientists believe that it may be possible to extract memories from the preserved brain and store those memories inside the computer, according to a new study.

The study, published in the magazine Plos oneIt indicates that most neuroscientists believe that memory has a physical basis, and on average, it gives a 40 % probability that one day we can simulate the human brain. But there was a little consensus on what exactly this material basis, with a highlight of our lack of knowledge of the made memories.

The authors wiped 312 neuroscientists – memory experts and neuroscientists – to obtain their ideas about the feasibility of preserving the human brain and later extracting its memories. Ariel Zeliznico Johnson, the neuroscientist at Monach University in Australia and his author The future loves you: How and why we should cancel death.

While the researchers wrote that memory extraction questions are “strange and speculative” minds, they provide an insight into how neuroscientists think about the formation of memory.

The results of the survey show that neuroscientists agree largely that memories have a material pillar instead of relying on a dynamic process that stops when preserving it; It is likely to be stored in interlocking bonds between neurons, which are enhanced and weakened with experience. The poll showed that 70 % of neuroscientists agree on a physical physical record of memory – designed in stable changes on nervous communication and interactions between proteins and other cellular components – which you can theory to take a snapshot.

However, “there was no clear consensus exactly the advantage or physiological scale is crucial to storing memory”, the authors wrote in the study. Scientists who were included in the decision-making-from atomic formation of biomedic molecules did not agree to accuracy at the nanometer level of the without cellular structures-it will be required to extract a memory from the preserved brain. This is largely due to the fact that although most neuroscientists agree that memory has a physical basis, it still discusses the exact essence of this basis.

The survey also asked whether the existing tools can theoretically maintain the brain’s structure well enough to extract memories. Maintaining the brain in a way that the proteins and cells remain difficult, because freezing can harm nerve tissue. But one of the ways that neuroscientists can do this by preserving stable cooling with aldehyde, a technique that combines chemical stabilization with glazing-the process of converting the material into a glass-like solid by cooling it quickly. The study asked neuroscientists to set the possibility that memories are extracted from the brain preserved. Participants gave a wide range of estimates, but the average answer was about 40 % possibility.

The authors asked neuroscientists about the possibility of a whole brain simulation – such as, loading a person’s brain, on a computer – from the preserved nerve tissue. This can open the ability to download yourself and your full awareness in a machine. In this case, the average answer again was about 40 %, although the authors notice that the responses were widely varied.

“He is Muslim with it, this is not 100 percent,” said Zelizniko Johnston IFLSCIENCE. “This means that there is no complete consensus in society as yes, this will definitely work, but it is not 0.1 per cent, or 0.01 percent. This is a large part of neuroscientists who believe that there is a very real opportunity because it will succeed, and I am on the fact that this number will actually crawl over time with our brain farms and biases, all these other things.”

Neuroscientists believe that we are still far from the ability to simulate an entire human brain, according to the study. When they were asked when we might be able to simulate human brain, the respondents gave a medium answer from 2125.

However, it is something to think of.