full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Michael S.A. Graziano: How close are we to uploading our minds?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


At every step in the scanning and uploading process, we’d have to be certain we were capturing all the necessary intomaorfin accurately— or there’s no telling what ruined version of a mind might eermge.

While mind uploading is theoretically possible, we’re likely hundreds of yares away from the technology and scientific uidrtnnansdeg that would make it a reality. And that reality would come with ethical and philosophical considerations: who would have access to mind udopinalg? What rights would be accorded to udleoapd minds? How could this technology be abused? Even if we can eventually upload our minds, whether we should remains an open question.

Open Cloze


At every step in the scanning and uploading process, we’d have to be certain we were capturing all the necessary ___________ accurately— or there’s no telling what ruined version of a mind might ______.

While mind uploading is theoretically possible, we’re likely hundreds of _____ away from the technology and scientific _____________ that would make it a reality. And that reality would come with ethical and philosophical considerations: who would have access to mind _________? What rights would be accorded to ________ minds? How could this technology be abused? Even if we can eventually upload our minds, whether we should remains an open question.

Solution


  1. information
  2. uploaded
  3. years
  4. emerge
  5. uploading
  6. understanding

Original Text


At every step in the scanning and uploading process, we’d have to be certain we were capturing all the necessary information accurately— or there’s no telling what ruined version of a mind might emerge.

While mind uploading is theoretically possible, we’re likely hundreds of years away from the technology and scientific understanding that would make it a reality. And that reality would come with ethical and philosophical considerations: who would have access to mind uploading? What rights would be accorded to uploaded minds? How could this technology be abused? Even if we can eventually upload our minds, whether we should remains an open question.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
mind uploading 2
human brain 2
neural signaling 2


Important Words


  1. abused
  2. access
  3. accorded
  4. capturing
  5. emerge
  6. ethical
  7. eventually
  8. hundreds
  9. information
  10. mind
  11. minds
  12. open
  13. philosophical
  14. process
  15. question
  16. reality
  17. remains
  18. rights
  19. ruined
  20. scanning
  21. scientific
  22. step
  23. technology
  24. telling
  25. theoretically
  26. understanding
  27. upload
  28. uploaded
  29. uploading
  30. version
  31. years