BRAIN UPLOADING? When I first read Ray Kurtzweil’s ideas about putting consciousness on a computer or the web, I simply thought that he had lost it, despite his evident credentials. Such an outrageously novel idea seemed similar to claims that death was old hat (wait for this theme!). I was troubled by the biochemical and anatomical conundrum of putting your brain on a pen-drive. We have nothing to lose but to gander down this lane and take a look.