Originally Posted By: Wayne Zeller
Surely a system that could read the signals in the brain with the exactitude necessary to recreate those signals in another system would have to be so invasive as to destroy the original tissue.

Maybe not. Already we see Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment producing incredibly detailed images of internal anatomy, quite harmlessly.

"You find yourself in the machine."

I wonder. Do you? Is it you, or have you ceased to exist, and someone else is in the machine with your memories?

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler