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We'll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045....
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 9/18/13 | By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON

Posted on 09/18/2013 5:15:51 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

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And if these predictions comes true, it could make humans immortal

Until a deadly computer virus comes along and wipes out machinekind.

21 posted on 09/18/2013 5:38:45 PM PDT by HarleyD
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People say the funniest things. A memory is fairly specific, a mind is still badly defined. Downloading a memory, could be a fairly technical goal, but downloading a mind is a fantasy. I would be like predicting when we will be able to see a soul. We will have a computer sophisticated enough to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Both can be stated, but cannot be answered because souls and angels are a little bit more difficult to put in scientific terms.

Bottom line, download your mind if you like, but don’t let them destroy your body until you are REALLY SURE!!!

DK


22 posted on 09/18/2013 5:39:04 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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I like a feller with imagination, but color me skeptical. We are so far from understanding what is even meant by “mind” that any projections of engineering progress along those lines are nonsense in the precise meaning of the word. It isn’t data. We’re pretty good at slinging data from one place and form to another, true - were it a matter of that, you could pretty much project next year and probably not be too far off. But mind, consciousness, soul - these are emergent phenomena, not explicable from a model of the system components. And Gilbert Ryle despite, there really does appear to be a Ghost In The Machine. We don’t even understand the machine yet.


23 posted on 09/18/2013 5:39:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Hmm...ask the Krell how becoming “gods” worked out for them. :)


24 posted on 09/18/2013 5:39:39 PM PDT by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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Humans will become immortal (at least until an accident takes them) but as biological creatures..not as machines.

Nanotechnology will allow for endless repair/replacement/alteration of the human body but IMO the human mind will never be able to be stored on some device.

In the near future nearly everything will disposable. Very few people will need to work. People will live for an awfully long time.

I wonder how different the world will be when everyone can look however they wish, live as long as they desire, procure nearly any item they want and have enormous amounts of leisure time.


25 posted on 09/18/2013 5:39:59 PM PDT by Bobalu (Bobo the Wonder Marxist leads Operation Rodeo Clown against Syria)
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No, we won’t.


26 posted on 09/18/2013 5:42:32 PM PDT by vpintheak (Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
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LIBs/DIMs/RINOs would maybe fill one MB...all of them in total.


27 posted on 09/18/2013 5:42:50 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Ray Kurzweil is one smart guy. When he talks I listen. He is a well known inventor and almost certainly the worlds foremost expert on where technology is going and when it's going to get there. He has a very good track record in that domain.

Wikipedia article on Ray Kurzweill

28 posted on 09/18/2013 5:43:13 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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"In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers"


29 posted on 09/18/2013 5:47:11 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Scenario: You are 35 years old and you walk into a RJUV clinic where they have a clone grown from a fingernail that is 22 years old.

Sub scenario 1: You wake up as a 22 year old with all your 35 years of knowledge intact. Your old body is thrown in the S-Green chute.

Sub scenaro 2: You wake up as a 22 year old with all your 35 years of knowledge intact. Your old body also wakes up.............


30 posted on 09/18/2013 5:50:55 PM PDT by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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Not me! I’ll be dead unless I can make it to 123 and then I just won’t shiv a git.


31 posted on 09/18/2013 5:50:56 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Some people’s minds are shrinking so fast that by 2045 they’ll fit on a floppy.

Dem-in-pocket.

So what else is new?


32 posted on 09/18/2013 5:52:34 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
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May explain why google is spying on everyone and archiving data... for their artificial brains
33 posted on 09/18/2013 5:52:58 PM PDT by opentalk
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I recall in the 1980's the Artificial Intelligence programmers were going to make computers so intelligent that they would be doing all our important thinking within 20 years. Have they made one smarter than Obama yet?
34 posted on 09/18/2013 5:54:05 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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If this is accomplished, silly humans will download the minds of the greatest thinkers on earth but will only focus on the perverted fantasies and sick thoughts they had. He was a racist! She thought of cheating all the time!


35 posted on 09/18/2013 5:54:50 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Will give new meaning to catching a virus.


36 posted on 09/18/2013 6:01:55 PM PDT by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

...and no one will be able to tell the difference.

Thanks GrandJediMasterYoda. Apropos of nothing...

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37 posted on 09/18/2013 6:15:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" a science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison... foresaw the horror...
38 posted on 09/18/2013 6:21:25 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
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I wonder how different the world will be when everyone can look however they wish, live as long as they desire, procure nearly any item they want and have enormous amounts of leisure time.

It will look like Hell. People suffering from the conceit that they are immortal will think themselves gods. Petty gods lose their moral bearings and always become corrupted by their power. There's just no way this ends well.

39 posted on 09/18/2013 6:28:22 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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40 posted on 09/18/2013 6:52:08 PM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein.)
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