The "2045" team is working towards creating an international research center where leading scientists will be engaged in research and development in the fields of anthropomorphic robotics, living systems modeling and brain and consciousness modeling with the goal of transferring one’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier and achieving cybernetic immortality.
This guy says mankind (and by mankind he means billionaires only, I suppose) could achieve immortality (by transferring one's mind to a robot) by 2045. While it seems to me that it is just a (not so) elaborate scam, the concept always interested me.
Will it ever be possible to transfer the human mind, a unique consciousness, to a digital form? How would that work? You go to sleep and then wake up in a different body? Or it would be a simple clone?
i really dont know if id want that. on the one hand... rocket launcher arms and immortality! on the other... what will i lose? will i be able to feel things in the same way? it just depends on how far the technology goes i guess... and also how secure it is. once you 'become' digital, you're opening yourself up to a whole new mess of trouble.
What if you get hit by a virus that makes all your dreams into goatse or all the people's faces into goatse? or worse, what if it turns them into my face?
well thats what im saying... how secure could it be?. what if i get hacked, and everyones face that i see becomes yours, and every word they say is 'firemaster'. what good is immortality if i want to blow my cyberbrain apart after only 10 seconds?
well thats what im saying... how secure could it be?. what if i get hacked, and everyones face that i see becomes yours, and every word they say is 'firemaster'. what good is immortality if i want to blow my cyberbrain apart after only 10 seconds?
Well, I personally think that what we can imagine, we can achieve, just in due time
So, yeah, there are no impossibilities.
As for the: will I feel the same way as I do now? Well that's a tough question. Since we don't really know anything about how our brain works. Are our emotions just some kind of weird chemical reaction or?
But then, why wouldn't robots feel? That is, if you made AI, or a silicon based life form, what would be so different between us and them? We are carbon based, they silicon, but we are both alive, no?
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson
chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.
Speaking of 2045 (totally unrelated btw, so forgive me ) the B-52 stratofortress is slated to be in service until 2045:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52
Now how cool is that? A plane that will see almost ~100 years of service
I've been wondering about this sometimes with relation to teleportation, assuming we will eventually be able to deconstruct one body and then reconstruct it in another place. Does the reconstruction just recreate the original as a clone with the exact same memories and personality as the original, and the individual initially deconstructed gets killed in the process ?
Or does it actually work like in the movies (although first hypothesis wouldn't infirm movies either since no one would actually be able to tell the resulting individual was not actually the same, but you get what i'm saying - same dude comes out, without getting murdered in the process )
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