"In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers"
Posted on 09/18/2013 5:15:51 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Until a deadly computer virus comes along and wipes out machinekind.
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
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.
Hmm...ask the Krell how becoming “gods” worked out for them. :)
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.
No, we won’t.
LIBs/DIMs/RINOs would maybe fill one MB...all of them in total.
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.............
Not me! I’ll be dead unless I can make it to 123 and then I just won’t shiv a git.
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?
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!
Will give new meaning to catching a virus.
...and no one will be able to tell the difference.
Thanks GrandJediMasterYoda. Apropos of nothing...
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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.
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