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In about 100 years, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku believes we’ll explore the universe as pure consciousness — traveling at the speed of light, looking at asteroids, comets, meteors, and eventually the stars. “All of this within the laws of physics,” he says. Through recent brain imaging, we know know that the prefrontal cortex of teenagers is fully formed. This induces them to take risks. Also, when guys who talk with pretty girls, we also know it’s that blood drains from their brains. Well, their prefrontal cortex. This makes them liable to act “mentally retarded.” The Connectome Project will map the entire brain in about 100 years.
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MICHIO KAKU
Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as well as New York University (NYU).
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MICHIO KAKU: We physicists are now looking into the brain itself. And we can see blood flow. And we can even see thoughts, thoughts as they’re being created. And we can now show that certain old wives’ tales are correct. Every parent, for example, believes that their teenage children suffer from brain damage. It’s partially true. Scanning the prefrontal cortex of teenagers, you find that it’s not fully formed. And that’s why they take risks, because they don’t understand how dangerous certain things are. Another old wives’ tale is, when a man talks to a pretty girl, he starts to act stupid. Absolutely true.
We have brain scanned men talking to pretty girls, and what happens is blood drains from the prefrontal cortex. And they start to act mentally retarded. Absolutely true. We can quantify the effect. We could measure it by measuring the drop in blood flow to the cerebral cortex. Now, I personally believe that one day, we will digitize the entire human brain. And what are we going to do with it? I think we’re going to shoot it into outer space. We’re going to put our Connectome on a laser beam and shoot it to the moon. We will be on the moon, our consciousness will be on the moon, in one second, one second, without booster rockets, without all the dangers of radiation or weightlessness. We’ll be on the moon in one second. We’ll shoot it to Mars.
We’ll be on Mars. In 20 minutes, we’ll be on Mars. We’ll shoot it to Alpha Centauri. We’ll be on the nearby stars in four years. And what is on the moon? On the moon is a computer that downloads this laser beam with your consciousness on it, downloads it and puts it into an avatar, an avatar that looks just like you– handsome, strong, beautiful, whatever, and immortal. And you can walk on the moon. You can then go and explore Mars. In fact, I think that once we have a laser porting perfected, you’ll have breakfast in New York. And then you’ll go to the moon for brunch on the moon. You go to Mars for lunch, and then you go to the asteroid belt in the afternoon for tea. And then you come back to Earth that evening.
This is all within the laws of physics. And I’ll stick my neck out. I think this actually exists already. I think outside the planet Earth, there could be a highway, a laser highway of laser beams shooting the consciousness of aliens at the speed of light, laser porting across the galaxy. And we humans are too stupid to know it. How would we even know that this laser superhighway exists? How would we even detect it with our technology? Our technology today is so primitive, that we wouldn’t even be able to know that this already exists. So in other words, I think laser porting is the way that we will ultimately explore the universe.
We’ll explore the universe as pure consciousness traveling at the speed of light, looking at asteroids, comets, meteors, and eventually the stars, at the speed of light– all of this within the laws of physics. When will this happen? Perhaps in 100 years. The Connectome Project will map the entire brain in about 100 years. And then, what do we do with it? I say, we shoot it to the stars.
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"Avatar that looks just like you, handsome, strong, beautiful, whatever" ohh so thats how lizard people are made! #davidicke
I'm not sure I believe it, Dr Kaku. Can consciousness exist outside the brain? Shooting it to mars/moon whatever would just create a program in an avatar that acts like you, but isn't you, is a copy of you/your personality/memories, etc. In fact, I'm not even sure there is ANY way to test a tranfer of consciousness, like the star trek transporter would create a copy of you, the real you would have died when you were disintegrated.
AATMA CAN BE DOWNLOADED AND UPLOADED . WAH!
"you" or a copy?
Mr. Kaku – You're my top favorite scientist.
You say consciousness can not exist without the material. I assert to you that it can and does.
I'm strongly suggesting that consciousness is not to be found only as an energy state that we can detect.
I know you will figure out the experiment and the ingredients because you're that level of savant.
All the respect for Michio Kaku as a physicist but how can we talk about consciousness in such absolute terms when we don't yet know what it is? Potentially, our whole body is embedded in the role of cognitive function. Our heart beats when we're feeling lust. Our nervous system feeds back to our cognitive capacities in preparation for fight or flight. Being in nature improves our mental function. We respond instinctively to the ebbs and flows of mob collectivism and form neural connections from information given via popular runaway narratives. Our limbic system and amygdala work to form associations that structure our world processing. PTSD changes neural pathways in the brain which in turn dictates our relationships, inter-personal connections, emotions….
How can we 'download' something that is so inherently dynamic? Who we are is connected to our own bodies, our society and the earth. 'Consciousness' may only work within this environmentally closed system.
It is glaringly apparent that we need philosophy in this century more than ever. We cannot take for granted the language we use to explain these ideas or what we imagine for the future. My hope is that scientists are more willingly recognise the value of higher levels of abstraction in thought and language used by philosophers. Understanding our world is a team effort. Poetry tells us as much about consciousness as cognitive science does.
We need to naturalise the methods and dignified attempts of those who are prepared to approach the murky territory of reality mapping with the insufficient explanatory models provided them. It is often a thankless task and at worst a ridiculed one. I would really enjoy if Michio Kaku were to incorporate theories of 4E cognition into his consciousness theories or maybe give more fundamental reflection to what he is proposing. I have the upmost respect for scientific inquiry. I would like to see that respect reciprocated to philosophy departments in the form of research funding and platforms for inter-disciplinary discussions.
Then your conciousness get lost somewhere in space for eternity
Clinical psychoses.
So this gentleman is under the assumption that consciousness come from the brain. Consciousness comes from the firing of synapses in the brain. That assumption is wrong.
good talk
He mentions physics but not in the quantum sense. Quantum entanglement suggests "travel" at the speed of thought is likely. Time is irrelevant.
Does it take the same four years to deliver and install the laser-receiving apparatus to the nearest star? Presumably, transporting physical objects takes way longer than beaming the data, right?
How fucking retarded… Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.
Consciousness is not made in the brain!! Dr Eben Alexander the brain surgeon!
Dommage pour la traduction en français .
My man!
2 ways . actualy transfer our neurons to something els someway . or make a copy but wont be us
Digitizing the brain, no matter how great the resolution and detail, will never include the interior feeling we have of self-awareness and experience: e.g., the experience of the color green, the smell of a rose, or the feelings of love for a mate. How could numerical quantities and data structures ever have that? Consciousness IS NOT created by the brain when a certain level of complexity is reached; the brain is an object within consciousness.
So if I dig on Mars am I creating an actual hole…
https://youtu.be/Lfq-Ui0JP4w
Yo wtf ur gonna shoot my brain to space so some evil alien can find it hell no
Women make men retarded. Sounds like a good reason to go MGTOW.
And we all know where that blood flows
Wait but if the digital economy includes post-human and artificial personas and competition over resources, you may need to change yourself to be interoperable with the work required to justify expending computational resources over time. If entities entirely unlike your human person are necessary for increasingly profitable tasks, humans will need to become increasingly inhuman to maintain their competitiveness. If so, it may be that not long after becoming a digital version of yourself, you must become some other digital entity and give up what made you "you" in the first place.
If at the same time the biological organism which also bore an instantiation of your brains information is dead, then you'll not have survived at all. Only an impression which vaguely sources itself to your decisions exists.
Reads like murder to me!
It's more than a Theseus' Ship paradox. To make it work for the ship, every time you need to replace a piece of the ship you also have to upgrade the ship with the latest technology. But you're doing this in an ecosystem in which you will only find parts for 20th century warships after only a little bit of entropy. Either you'll have to trade out all those wooden planks for so much plastic and metal or be blown out of the water. After a while do you have anything resembling the ship Theseus sailed in or something resembling any arbitrary 20th century battleship?
This guy lives in fantasy land.
Respect, Starseed Science fam 💡 🧬 👾
so there will be a computer on the moon to download the laser beam and turn it into an avatar. and a computer on mars and a computer in alpha centauri? left unexplained. how is it going to get there? what form the computer is going to be? 🤔
Indian saints are doing it since years
Allegedly there are aliens inside the moon existing as avatars or cyborgs(AI and mechanical functions keep them alive in some capacity). The moon serves as shield to protect them from anything outside of the moon. And they radiate energy that affects us on Earth negatively, hence why some studies show that there is more aggression during certain parts of lunar cycles. But maybe that's all BS, who knows.
100 years? Daaaamn that's too much waiting.
When you try to sleep but Big Thinks keeps you up
Nothing guarantees that the avatar is you or just a perfect copy of you after the transportation of consciousness. It's far more probable that it's just a perfect copy of you with perfect copy of your memories and perfect copy of your consciousness.