Now Humans Can Upload Their Brain On The Web And Live For 150 Years In The Metaverse

Imagine living for 150 years, not in your own body but maybe in a robot like a cyborg or just being conscious in a virtual world as some have begun to call it “The metaverse.” It does sound fantastic doesn’t it, but then again, there are people who are actually working on such technology. Well! And you thought movies like Chappie were just fiction, now that movie had something there, didn’t it??

Well, the world’s wealthiest people have always been seeking for the secrets to perpetual youth for millennia, but one billionaire believes that the greatest way to acquire immortality is to just disappear into cyberspace. As reported in the Daily Star, Dmitry Itskov, a Moscow-based scientist, claims that the human body in its current form is merely a shell, and that artificial bodies, which would allow people to mind upload and live up to 150 years, might become a reality within the next 25 years.

The inventor of ‘New Media Stars,’ which he sold for an estimated £1 billion, is a key figure in the ‘2045 project,’ which aims to use the internet to ‘remove ageing and even death.’ Artificial bodies, thanks to a technique known as mind-uploading, might theoretically allow people to shift out of their old bodies and into a new one.

The Metaverse, which was first conceived by Facebook’s parent corporation Meta, intends to be the first true Virtual Reality environment, one in which individuals can reside at all times. It’s possible that a 3D world centred on social interaction will be the inevitable next step after social media.

Whereas the Metaverse tries to integrate real-world and virtual aspects, Itskov’s mind upload approach necessitates total immersion. When you consider what Elon Musk’s Neuralink firm hopes to do in the next years, the concept doesn’t seem that far-fetched. The world’s wealthiest man is attempting to develop a brain-computer interface that will allow the brain to perform previously inconceivable tasks.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is pretty much the same

The Neuralink will give humans greater access to control their brains and impact the lives of people with brain and spinal cord injuries. Handicapped people could interact with their prosthetics, computers, and smartphones just by using a neuralink implant in their brain. While the technology is still in development stage, Elon Musk introduced the technology in 2021 with an aim of universal collaboration towards redefining the future of human consciousness.

Neuralink will involve a tiny 8 mm micro-chipset called N1 implanted into the brain just behind the ear. It will be connected to 96 very fine and flexible threads thinner than human hair. The threads will be connected to electrodes in the brain. A specially designed neurosurgical robot called the ‘Robot Sewing Machine” will insert threads into the brain at a rate of six threads or 192 electrodes per minute totaling 3072 electrodes. The threads are as thick as the neurons in the brain and thinner than a strand of hair at 100 micrometers.

Once implanted, the microchip will engage in ultra-amplification of brain waves and digitize the brain. The electrodes will map different parts of the brain and decode complex brain signals. It will then convert them into algorithms that can be read by a machine. This will help Neuralink read a human’s thoughts, and find a way to communicate without even speaking. So, can this possibly be better than the Metaverse? Watch the short video of the Neuralink here. 

As for Dmitry Itskov’s mind upload, futurist and tech expert Tom Cheesewright feels it is possible. Cheesewright says- “You’d have to download the software of your whole body and recreate that in a way the brain feels is plausible. Replicating that inside a machine is an enormously complex proposition that we’re a very long way from achieving.”

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