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Randal Koene: Mind Uploading is not Science Fiction (part 1)

2,304 views · Published 18 December 2011 · 12:19 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Singularity Weblog · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Last week I interviewed Dr. Randal Koene for Singularity 1 on 1.

Dr. Koene is perhaps one of the world's foremost neuroscientists. He is director of analysis at Halcyon Molecular, co-founder of Carbon Copies and co-founder of and director at the Neural Engineering Corporation of Massachusetts.

Randal's research objective is whole brain emulation, creating the large-scale high-resolution representations and emulations of activity in neuronal circuitry that are needed in patient-specific neuroprostheses.

During our 70 min conversation we discuss a large variety of topics such as: Randal's early childhood and interest in science fiction; his lack of time to do all the things that he wanted to; his fascination with neuroscience; the distinction between whole brain emulation, whole brain simulation and complete understanding of the human brain; his work at Halcyon Molecular, Carbon Copies and Neuro Engineersing; the roadmap and benchmarks on the path of mind-uploading; the best and worst case scenarios that could result from Dr. Koene's work; some of the ethical implications of mind uploading; the relationship between mind-uploading and the technological singularity.

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