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Mind Uploading Versus the Concept of Soul

While creating an online course on “Memory Skills Improvement”, I got interested in knowing more and more about our brain and memory. One of the most exciting concept which I came across was “Mind Uploading”. I read about it and saw some youtube videos. Fortunately during the same time I was also creating some courses on yoga, pranayama and meditation. This helped me visualize few things which I thought is worth sharing with my readers. The concept of “Mind Uploading” treats everything in our brain just like some data and it talks about transferring all that data to a large storage in a finite span of time. To give you some idea about the size, people are trying to read state of about 86 billion neurons and 1500 trillion synapses or neural connections and then transfer its state in real time to some form of digital storage in a way that its 3 dimensional positioning can also be retained. Which means transferring that many number of voxels (3D pixels). The problem in not just the sh...

Let's Talk Negative

“Come! let us have lunch together”. “I know you must be having some vested interests, that is why you are asking me for lunch”, comes the answer. “OK! Let’s make a new beginning”. “Every time you make a fresh beginning and make excuses”, again comes a typical reply from him”. “I really believe in retaining my relationships”. “As if, I believe in breaking them”, was the annoying answer I got. This is a typical series of talks; we face in our day to day life. Believe me every sentence can be negatively answered. If I say “I love you”, the negative minded answer could be, “Say it clearly, what do you want from me, nobody loves without any expectations”. One day I decided to practice negativity for whole day. It was little difficult to frame replies in the first hour of the morning but within an hour of talking, I became fluent in answering everything in a negative way. After few hours of talking negative, I realized that many sentences that I framed consciously that day were actuall...