Turning The Human Mind Into Computer Data: Where Science-Fiction Meets Reality

In the future we might be able to upload our memories directly onto a hard drive or transplant them into a new body so our consciousness can achieve immortality. It is currently the stuff of science-fiction but technology could reach that point one day. However, it's way more difficult than it sounds -- if we're going to think of the brain like a computer, it's the most complicated computer around. And the human mind is still full of mystery. BBC Earth Lab explores the subject in a new video (below), describing how something as basic as creating a map of the brain, which would be necessary if we want to understand and manipulate its function, requires scientists to plot out the billions of neurons that form the organ's communication network.