How close are we to uploading our minds? - Michael S.A. Graziano

The brain is literally finding ways to save itself

The animation is very cool.. It's like abstract art in motion. ❤

Narrator's voice and beautiful animations make the Ted-ED videos to standout. Well done :)

One thing that always scares me as a kid on the topic of mind uploading is whether we are evading death or simply creating a copy of ourself. If we preserve our brain and turn our body into a cyborg then it seems like the former but if we are copying data and information of our brain into a digital system, it seems whoever is enjoying the benefits or sensation of that is not us (we still die) but a copy of our memory.

The question I have about this hypothetical technology is: If you upload your mind, you are really just creating a copy of yourself and since you are not the copy, but rather the original, what's the point? After they finished they would say, "your mind was successfully uploaded" and you'd say "shouldn't I be in a computer simulation right now?" and they'd say "a version of you is in the computer simulation right now" and you'd say "a lot of good that does me, I'm still stuck in the real world". This also begs the question, after the upload which one would be your real consciousness?

I'm 20 and studying especially for this. Hope that 60 years will be enough...

This is the video game SOMA. It tackles a lot of the philosophical and ethical issues about this, and is both terrifying and brilliant.

In the future when this is possible, would our consciousness actually “enter” the computer? Or would it be more like a digital copy and paste of the mind creating a new version of you in the computer? From the video it seems like the latter.

“The point is: If we can store music on a compact disc, why can't we store a man's intelligence and personality on one? So I have the engineers figuring that out now.” -Cave Johnson, Portal 2

I’ve always thought about this as a way to achieve immortality, but one of the big issues is if we scan our brains how do we know we didn’t just clone ourselves and our consciousness is left behind? This video explained each part of what we need well and my question will eventually be answered in the future

imagine your grandchildren watching you dancing in the kitchen at 3am with this technology

Imagine getting lost in the internet cause your kid reroutes the WiFi To his game. Going straight from lofi music to call of duty

trump: we need to build a wall digital trump: we need to build a firewall

TED-Ed asking the philosophical questions that may be a reality in the future.

The show Pantheon was dedicated to every single question this video asks and I loved it. (it's a tragedy it got canceled)

I would love to hear this narrator’s voice again in another TED Ed, it’s just so calming.

I also have some ethical questions that comes to mind... If we at some point have many minds uploaded, would they ever be against more minds beeing uploaded? Or what if they didnt want to contact the real world anymore, feeling superior? How secure should the servers be? What if a person destroyed the uploaded mind of someone, does that count as murder?

That was the best video I've seen in a while. Unexpectedly good. Huge thanks to Michael Graziano, who made this possible.

Anyone here after watching upload on amazon prime?

Imagine this. Putting your memories, experiences, almost everything about you into a highly advanced robot that can help operate a scientific research company, founded by someone you might know of but not entirely sure about it.