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No bodies, just souls

Ana Daldon

The "No bodies, just souls" project explores the possibility that a positive outcome of human brain research will influence the concept of life itself. It will be a long way away: the most complex brain that has been mapped has only 300 neurons. The human brain has 86 billion neurons...

The success of the research on brain mapping would change the way we perceive, learn and share experiences (What if we could download data from the network to transfer them directly into our brain?). Our idea of life, death and immortality will be discussed and transferred on a virtual dimension. The perception, the need and the desire will exist only on a mental level: the futurist dream (the desire to escape completely from the dirty matter) will be fulfilled.

The project investigates between desacralized spirituality and dematerialized materialism . It explores the rift between "soul" and "body", that came into light after the beginning of the digital era. In the previous ages the "body" and the "soul" were indissolubly linked.

Could this rift and the subsequent shift to a virtual world help us to solve the problems linked to the end of the resources, the small scale and non-infinite possibilities of earth (and so on) offering us anyway a “real” life? We will ask European researchers, that are working on the exploration of the almost unexplored brain world, about this scenario and we will try to understand where is the limit between real possibilities and temporary science fictions.  

 

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No bodies, just souls
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January 30, 2014