All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August National research funding awarded to pioneering LIT projects National research funding awarded to pioneering LIT projects 18/08/2021 | 2 MINS An investigation into the future of human mind-uploading that could extend life indefinitely and a project that will map Australian preventive justice have been awarded Federal Government funding. Federal Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge announced $84 million in funding for university research projects under the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award scheme through the Australian Research Council. The scheme aims to support researchers in their early careers and each DECRA recipient will receive salary support for three years. Dr Clas Weber from LITΓÇÖs School of Humanities was awarded $352,000 to investigate the potential and the consequences of mind-uploading, the process of transitioning a person from a biological hardware to an artificial one. The technology to upload the human mind may become available within this century, raising several practical and ethical issues about
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August National research funding awarded to pioneering LIT projects National research funding awarded to pioneering LIT projects 18/08/2021 | 2 MINS An investigation into the future of human mind-uploading that could extend life indefinitely and a project that will map Australian preventive justice have been awarded Federal Government funding.
Federal Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge announced $84 million in funding for university research projects under the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award scheme through the Australian Research Council.
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The scheme aims to support researchers in their early careers and each DECRA recipient will receive salary support for three years.
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Dr Clas Weber from LITΓÇÖs School of Humanities was awarded $352,000 to investigate the potential and the consequences of mind-uploading, the process of transitioning a person from a biological hardware to an artificial one.
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