{"id":40271,"date":"2013-09-27T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/stephen_hawking_in_the_future_brains_could_be_separated_from_the_body\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:30:12","slug":"stephen_hawking_in_the_future_brains_could_be_separated_from_the_body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40271","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking: &#39;in the future brains could be separated from the body&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer &#8211; but not with technology existing today&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Hawking was speaking after the premiere of a new biopic about his life, which he narrates himself, at the Cambridge Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about whether a person&#8217;s consciousness can live on after they die, he said: &#8220;I think the brain is like a programme in the mind, which is like a computer, so it&#8217;s theoretically possible to copy the brain onto a computer and so provide a form of life after death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, this is way beyond out present capabilities. I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/10322521\/Hawking-in-the-future-brains-could-be-separated-from-the-body.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer &#8211; but not with technology existing today&#8230;. Prof Hawking was speaking after the premiere of a new biopic about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40271\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,175,199,178,104,133,155,108,95,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-eschatology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}