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Have you ever considered the possibility of transferring your consciousness into a computer? Sabine Hossenfelder, a German theoretical physicist, believes this could one day be possible.
According to Hossenfelder, the fundamental laws of physics as described in the Standard Model of particle physics can explain everything in the universe, including human consciousness. It suggests that we are simply a collection of elementary particles, but it is the arrangement of these particles that gives us our unique qualities and abilities.
Thus, it might be possible to capture and transfer all the information about the arrangement of particles in the body in order to transfer a person's consciousness into a computer. So could we one day upload our consciousness and exist within a machine? This is an interesting possibility.
Read the video transcript https://bigthink.com/series/great-question/do-humans-have-souls/
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About Sabine Hossenfelder:
Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist, author and creator of /"Science Without the Gobbledygook/". She currently works at the Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Munich, Germany.
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