Our brains are the most impressive achievement of evolution we know of. They are several million times more powerful than anything created by man. Our brains create our sense of self, our consciousness. This very personal part of each of us is created by neural networks in our skulls, a concept so hard to believe that a large percentage of the population instead believe our "self" is generated by a supernatural soul. It is now 2043, and regardless of belief, we know enough about biological brains to build digital ones. …
