Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?
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Published 2020-12-10
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The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endless universe, only bound by the laws of physics and yet, our consciousness is trapped in mortal machines made of meat. With the breathtaking explosion of innovation and progress, for the first time the concept of leaving our flesh piles behind and uploading our minds into a digital utopia seems possible. Even like the logical next step on our evolutionary ladder.
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F to all the people that upload to the cloud & get stuck at a 99% loading screen for eternity
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βThe brain is the most complex organism and it deserves itβs own videoβ -The Brain
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One intriguing thing that isn't talked about is would an uploaded mind have a perfect memory. Our memory as it is isn't very reliable seeing as how everytime we access a memory, it changes a little bit. Hundreds of recalls later, it could look nothing like what actually happened. A digital mind could have access to recordings of events they experienced and essentially store them as read-only.
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Iβll put my immortal Brian on pause for 10,000 years until half life 3 is out
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Cyberpunk couldn't hope for better advertisement
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Everyone gansta until the internet disconnects
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it's both comforting and upsetting that in our lifetime we likely won't figure out how the consciousness works
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There's a shortstory by Stanislav Lem from his "Ijon Tichy" series, where Ijon is visited by a person that has invented immortality.
This guy, named Decantor, explains that after decades of studying, he has finally managed to create a way to transfer a human conciousness onto a thumbdrive-like device, that will contain that soul forever.
As the story progresses, we learn that he used the method on his wife, however since the space on the device is limited, it doesn't allow communication with the outside world, the mind is basically suspended alone in a giant void. Forever.
Ijon is then so disgusted and horrified, that he offers all his belongings to obtain that device to smash it, so the woman can be released from her horrific jail.
He eventually persuades Decantor to see how terrible his creation is and they destroy the device together. -
βIf the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldnβt.β - Emerson Pugh
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can we just appreciate the fact that something with THIS amount of quality is free
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One of the other implications of a mind upload is the notion that you aren't really limited to a single copy. Which, as has been explored in the book series "we are bob", you could feasibly make a functional von neumann probe, or a "single" person running an entire business or industry of some kind merely by making multiple copies of themselves and a lot of other weirdness.
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Reminds me of the philosophical issues explored in "Soma" (psychological horror game, really cool), regarding the mind, the "copies", the robot-human mixed conciousness.
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Brain water to consciousness wine, amen.
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"The brain is the most complicated organic structure known."
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I'm suprised not a lot of people mentioned the game SOMA. It explores this topic really well :D
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Hereβs my opinion in a nutshell: If you transfer your mind to the digital world it whouldβt be you, it whould just be a copy of yourself with the same memories, the digital yourself will remember your life as his own and think he is you. But he isnβt he is just a mere copy.
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"the brain is most complex biological structure"
- the human brain -
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βhumans are horrible at predicting the pace of progressβ
this seems ironic knowing that this was sponsored by cyber punk -
Brain architecture is so complicated that it made me think more questions after watching this video...