Brain scanner to 'find human soul'…
They will use powerful magnetic forces to observe the structure and activities of every neuron in a living brain
http://archive.today/2018.12.20-173415/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8017068/chinese-scientists-to-try-to-find-the-human-soul-with-100m-state-of-the-art-brain-scanner/
The aim is to build the world’s most powerful MRI device - which may one day be able to help answer one of life's big questions. The mystical soul, according to many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, is the true essence of a living being. Simply stated, it is said to be the part of a person that is not physical and lives on long after the body experiences death.
The scanner “will revolutionise brain studies”, said a senior scientist working on the top secret project in Shenzhen. The total budget for the state-backed facility will even exceed that of FAST, the world’s largest telescope in Pingtan.
“It will show us a different world with phenomenon unseen before … maybe even the soul,” one scientist told the SCMP. “We may for the first time capture a full picture of human consciousness or even the essence of life itself," said another physicist. "Then we can define them and explain how they work in precise physical terms – just like Newton and Einstein defined and explained the universe,” he said.