Mind-Machine Meld

My college freshman-year roommate ~ who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in philosophy, BTW ~ once told me she'd be perfectly happy to be just a brain in a jar. I'm pretty sure she doesn't feel that way anymore, but if she did, she'd be intrigued and gratified by some of the predictions and experiment abstracts that took center stage at the recent Global Futures 2045 International Congress: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/mind-uploading-2045-futurists_n_3458961.html?utm_hp_ref=science