Neuroengineering: The Future

We are on the cusp of a broad revolution-one with startling implications for perception, cog- nition, emotionand indeed, personal identity. Still in its relative infancy, engineering is poised to move from perceptual aids, such as cochlear implants, to devices that will enhance and speed up thought, to the ultimate goal of researchers-that of uploading the mind from its bound state in the body to a platform-independent existence. This controversial book describes the science that will make these transformations possible. It begins by describing how the brain works, including an overview of the architecture of the brain. It then examines the current state-of-the-art in neural technologies, including devices that read from the brainand devices that can write information into the brain. The book also describes how insights from the nascent field of consciousness studies show how the full transfer of the 'soul' Could be realized. Finally, it considers what it would be like to be a mind unboundand the possibilities beyond those found in ordinary corporeal life.

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