# Future Biocomputing May Back Up the Neural Information That Defines Us by Bart Kosko > “Some future biocomputing technology may extract and thus back-up this defining neural information or wetware. But no such technology is in sight despite the steady advances of Moore's Law doubling of transistor density on computer chips every two years or so. Nor have we cracked the code of the random pulse train from a single neuron. Hence we are not even close to making sense of the interlocking pulse trains of the billions of chattering neurons in a functioning human brain.” > **— Bart Kosko**, *2009, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [CHEAP CRYONIC SUSPENSION OF BRAINS](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11637) — Edge published this exact, continuous passage in its 2009 Annual Question collection, *WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?*. The response page preserves the surrounding argument and qualifications. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response cohort and this passage's promotion status. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/preservation|Preservation]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] - [[wiki/Memory Continuity|Memory Continuity]] - [[wiki/Mind Uploading|Mind Uploading]] - [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Some future biocomputing technology may extract and thus back-up this defining neural information or wetware. But no such technology is in sight despite the steady advances of Moore's Law doubling of transistor density on computer chips every two years or so. Nor have we cracked the code of the random pulse train from a single neuron. Hence we are not even close to making sense of the interlocking pulse trains of the billions of chattering neurons in a functioning human brain.” — Bart Kosko, 2009, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bart-kosko-future-biocomputing-back-neural-information-defines ```