A powerful and state-of-the-art machine is being developed by Chinese scientists with the aim of penetrating every inch of the brain and discovering the human soul.
More than 100 million euros have been invested in the secret project of the Senchen Institute of Advanced Technology, which aims to build the most powerful MRI scanner in the world.
This means that this revolutionary MRI scanner will be able to image objects 1.000 times smaller than one millimeter!
Scientists will use the tomograph to observe the structure and activities of each neuron in a living brain. And maybe one day, as they say, they will be able to locate the human soul.
In many religious, philosophical and mythological traditions, the soul is the immaterial essence of a living being.
"It will show us a different world we have never seen before - maybe even the soul," a scientist told the South China Morning Post. "Perhaps for the first time we can capture a complete picture of human consciousness or even the essence of life itself," a physicist told the newspaper, adding: "Then we can identify them and explain how they work in specific physical terms. as Newton and Einstein defined and explained the universe. "
He Rongqiao, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, is skeptical about the project. "What is consciousness?" There is not even a scientific definition. "So since you can not define it, how is it possible to know that what you see is what you are looking for?" He wonders.
The project is in the first stage of implementation and its cost will exceed that of the largest telescope in the world (FAST) located in Pingtan province.
This new technology will also help with more practical issues such as the study or diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.