Humans will be immortalized in the same way as fiction films

A human world touches the immortal threshold, but not in our own bodies.

Although it really looks like movie scripts and fiction, some leading experts believe that soon, people will "load" their brains into computer memory to really become immortal.

Specifically, the latest person to make this prediction is Professor Brian Cox - a leading quantum physics expert. He thinks there is no reason that the human brain cannot simulate on computers. Because in terms of quantum physics, a human-like AI is entirely possible.

People will continue to live forever, in the form of algorithms.

Professor said, in the future we can digitize all the data in the brain, and load it into a super powerful computer. This is like we move the body into a computer and continue to operate, then reach the immortal threshold.

Cox is not alone with this idea. In 2016, Google's technical director Ray Kurrzweil also predicted that within 30 years humans would become immortal in digital form. He even believed that by the end of the century, many human organs would be replaced by machines.

" Based on the current understanding of the amount of computers needed to simulate the brain, we have the potential to do 1 billion times that. " - Kurrzweil shared.

Elon Musk - Tesla's CEO and SpaceX concurred. He thinks that only 1 in 1 billion of us will not continue to live in mechanical form.

Of course, this idea also met some criticisms. Like Professor Richard Jones from Sheffield University, he believes there are many problems in it.

" To digitize the brain, we have to draw a diagram of all the links in it, which is beyond the capacity of the current humanity."

"Even if we create such a diagram, we can't afford to make it work."

"In order to do this, we have to evaluate most accurately how neurons interact with each other, and it is a molecular scale field."

But doing that is not simple.

"Right now we don't even know how many molecules are in the brain, and how many of them are important.

"So, brain simulations can only be feasible if we understand them all at a complex molecular level."