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Investigate the possibility of scanning the human brain and uploading our minds and consciousness to a digital world.
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Imagine a future where nobody dies— instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and contributing to the biological world. Mind-uploading has powerful appeal— but what would it actually take to scan a person’s brain and upload their mind? Michael S. A. Graziano explores the challenges.
Lesson by Michael S. A. Graziano, directed by Lobster Studio.
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who came here bcoz of pantheon
I prefer to use it to recreate how the VRMMO games work in Sword Art Online
Why say uploading instead of downloading? Why not call it "making a copy" of the mind?
you have no soul, you are already passed
Nothing survives entropy.
The computer your mind is uploaded to will eventually break down. The power supply will fail. The planet the computer is on will eventually be consumed by fire, then ice as the sun burns out. Eventually, all of the stars in the sky will burn out. There will be no more energy left in the universe to power anything, including the computer your brain has been uploaded to. You will die. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing survives entropy.
About as close as the Egyptian phraohs were to achieving immortality through mummification
maybe an offline version of our minds.
But wouldn’t this scan just be a copy of the original person, who has died?
I feel so positive about menkind will be able to achieve all this at some point. I'm def open to it 🤗 it's a digitally nice comforting way to stay in touch with deceased loved ones (besides the other signs they give now and then) 🙏
100 years away? Put the pedal to the medal. Lets make it in this century.
Instead of a copy why not re-directing that original signal so it avoids the actuall target and get's saved on a flash chip like tech. Technically that would be the true definition of uploading our thoughts. It saves the origin, not the copy, slowly digitizing ourselfs over time/deactivating the target neuron since its no longer needed (the brain would probally do it naturally) and I mean technically we copy our thoughts and change them and that means there is no your orginial self. So one could argue on that, that its the key things that get associtated with us which creates our personality "true self".
Robocop
What if we just preserve the brain and spinal cord?
That way, it will be way less complex to reanimate and the future humans can just create a mechanical body link it to the brain and spinal cord.
I believe life is designed to end, there’s something special about Life and Death. It gives people meaning. Imagine you now, Aimlessly living with no purpose; Now imagine that subconsciously indefinitely. That doesn’t sound pleasant.
it's just insane how complex human brain is
let alone the whole human body
f**king mind blowing
Conclusion : need better scanning equipment
Imagine being a dinosaur in Chrome who dies repeatedly because of a cactus.
This is cool and all but this is assuming we are our brains I think that assumption is wrong because our brain knows where all our organs are but we don’t know where our organs are naturally we have to learn where they are so u don’t think we are our brain
Even if we could upload the brain it's not that we live forever it's copy of ourself.
I think a human mind that evolved to exist in a biological body would go mad very quickly trapped in a piece of hardware.
This is mind uploading. But digitial recreation. Mind uplpading is transfering one's actual mind and consciousness, oneself into a new medium.
San Junipero might be a reality someday then
human: we will upload our minds to achieve immortality.
Second law of thermodynamics: hhhh huh lul
Be honest you only watched this because of portal 2