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Virtual You — how digital doppelgängers could help us lead a healthy life

The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, housing the MareNostrum supercomputer in the Chapel Torre Girona © Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images
The idea that there could be “another me”, a doppelgänger or identical copy of oneself, has long had a powerful hold on the popular imagination. Now, science is beginning to breathe glimmers of reality into the concept, at least in digital form.
In Virtual You Peter Coveney, professor of chemistry and computer science at University College London, and Roger Highfield, science director at London’s Science Museum, show how far researchers have got in their quest for accurate digital simulations of humans in general — and of particular individuals.
Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield will be appearing at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival on Friday March 31 at 12pm

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This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Clive Cookson