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Scientific religion of brain uploading

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stryder Offline
(Jul 8, 2016 10:12 PM)elte Wrote: There seems to be the problem of lack of continuity-of-being in uploading a brain.  I don't see how success could be any better than achieving a perfect mental twin at the moment of  uploading.

hypothetically you wouldn't need to create a twin. You would just need to parallel process and create a symbiotic relationship between the visualised brain and the person that's being mapped.  The problem of course is that you couldn't do this as a snapshot of whatever day they want to capture, instead it would be something that would exist with a person throughout their life.  It's integration wouldn't just be a monitoring, recording system that follows their life, it would actually become apart of their make-up and how they process information. 

Such people would have very little need for smart phones, or other technological gadgets since they wouldn't be able to interface with them as quickly as their mnemonic counterpart.

I suspect that such a symbiotic system has already been contemplated to some extent, as there have been a number of instances where people can remember one thousand decimal places of pii, or speak another language fluently over night. 

(Imagine the capacity of using such equipment to create an agent that has access to all the data back at an operations centre through the help of co-workers.  Should they retire or go rogue, their connection can be severed pretty much removing the capacity to function as they once had.)
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elte Offline
(Jul 25, 2016 02:27 AM)stryder Wrote:
(Jul 8, 2016 10:12 PM)elte Wrote: There seems to be the problem of lack of continuity-of-being in uploading a brain.  I don't see how success could be any better than achieving a perfect mental twin at the moment of  uploading.

hypothetically you wouldn't need to create a twin. You would just need to parallel process and create a symbiotic relationship between the visualised brain and the person that's being mapped.  The problem of course is that you couldn't do this as a snapshot of whatever day they want to capture, instead it would be something that would exist with a person throughout their life.  It's integration wouldn't just be a monitoring, recording system that follows their life, it would actually become apart of their make-up and how they process information. 

Such people would have very little need for smart phones, or other technological gadgets since they wouldn't be able to interface with them as quickly as their mnemonic counterpart.

I suspect that such a symbiotic system has already been contemplated to some extent, as there have been a number of instances where people can remember one thousand decimal places of pii, or speak another language fluently over night. 

(Imagine the capacity of using such equipment to create an agent that has access to all the data back at an operations centre through the help of co-workers.  Should they retire or go rogue, their connection can be severed pretty much removing the capacity to function as they once had.)

I hope there would be some safeguards to limit how much access, if any, the powers that be have over the cyborgian mental enhancements.
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