plus是什么意思翻译英语流利说Level 6 Unit 2 Reading Virtual heaven学习笔记

2021年1月9日发(作者：滕斌)
英语流利说Level 6 Unit 2 Reading
Virtual heaven
If you could live forever, would you want to?
The challenge of keeping your body alive seems impossible, but some
scientists are working on an want to create a digital
copy of your”self” and keep that copy”alive” long after your physical
body has stopped functioning.
In effect , their plan is to clone a person electronically. Unlike
ordinary physical clones-which have identical features as their parents,
but which are independent organisms, each with a different conscious
self- your electronic clone would believe itself to be you. How might this
be possible?
One plan relies on the development of nanotechnology. Ray Kurzweil,
a leading futurist, predicts that within two or three decades we will have
tiny transmitters that can be injected into the brain. Once there they
would line up alongside neurons and monitor the details of the brain’s
activity. They would then be able to transmit that information to
receivers inside a special helmet, allowing us to map the brain.
As a further step, Kurzweil foresees using these tiny transmitters to
connect you to a world of virtual reality. With the transmitters in place,
you could think your way onto the Internet. Instead of seeing pictures on
a screen, you would see them in your mind. Rather than send emails to
your friends, you could meet them on some virtual tropical beach and
exchange messages in “virtual person”.
For a futurist like Ray, this would be heaven, a virtual heaven. Once
you upload the brain onto the Internet and log on to that virtual world,
your body can be left to decompose while your virtual self can play
games for as long as you wish.
However, there is still a problem. To exist on the net, your virtual self
will have to reside on the computer of a web-hosting company.
With your body long gone how will you
pay?

Question
1. What is the article about?--- It’s about the possibility of staying alive
long after our bodies have stopped functioning.
2. What can happen once your upload your brain onto the Internet?
You can leave your body behind.
clone something means to make copies of it from itself.
4. If something decomposes, it decays and falls apart.
5. To exist on the net, where were your virtual “self ” have to reside?
To exist on the net, your virtual self will have to reside on the computer
of a web-hosting company.