★Get enough of these basic brain cells together, interacting in the

right ways, and the mind emerges.(運(yùn)行方式產(chǎn)生思想？)

No single hunk of metal on an airplane has the property of

flight, but when you arrange the pieces in the right way, flight

emerges.

★★★Pieces and parts of a system can be individually quite simple.

It’s all about their interaction. In many cases, the parts themselves are

replaceable.

With powerful enough computers

simulating the interactions in our brains, we could upload. We could

exist digitally by running ourselves as a simulation, escaping the

biological wetware from which we’ve arisen, becoming non-biological

beings. That would be the single most significant leap in the history of

our species, launching us into the era of transhumanism超人類主義.

If biological algorithms are the important part of what

makes us who we are, rather than the physical stuff, then

it’s a possibility that we will someday be able to copy our

brains, upload them, and live forever in silica硅.

uncharted waters ahead of us. 我們面前的"藍(lán)海"

As always in science, the important thing is to run

the experiments and assess the results. Mother Nature will then tell us

which approaches are blind alleys小巷/'?li/, and which move us further down

the road of understanding the blueprints of our own minds.

Only one thing is certain: our species is just at the beginning of

something, and we don’t fully know what it is. We’re at an

unprecedented前所未有的 /?n'pres?dent?d/ moment in history, one in which?

brain science and technology are co-evolving. What happens at this?

intersection十字路口 is poised準(zhǔn)備好 to change who we are.

For thousands of generations, humans have lived the same sort of

life cycle over and over: we’re born, we control a fragile脆弱的 body, we enjoy

a small strip of sensory reality, and then we die.

Science may give us the tools to transcend that evolutionary story.

We can now hack our own hardware, and as a result our brains don’t

need to remain as we’ve inherited 繼承 /?n'her?t?d/ them.

We’re capable of inhabiting 棲居于

new kinds of sensory realities and new kinds of bodies. Eventually we

may even be able to shed our physical forms altogether.

Our species is just now discovering the tools to shape our own

destiny. Who we become is up to us.