![]() ![]() ![]() Proponents of the idea assure us that this knowledge is coming and that the required technology will continue to advance. Never mind that it also assumes general purpose digital computers note the kind that is easily reprogrammable and is used everywhere nowadays or some other similar computer architecture will overcome current physical limitations and stay relevant in ultra-high workload applications instead of being displaced by more specialized analog neuromorphic architectures - which are more powerful but less flexible, defeating much of the purpose of mind uploading versus, say, life extension and other forms of bio-augmentation. Additionally, there's the fact that it's impossible to kill as long as its data is backed up somewhere and there exists a computer on which to run it - you can just restart the simulation wherever you left off and the mind won't even recognize it.Ĭritics of the concept are quick to point out that it presupposes an understanding of neurology (not just human neurology, but even the neurology of a common insect) far, far beyond what currently exists and that without that knowledge, even the most powerful computer cannot do this. You can run multiple copies at the same time, and have them do different things, make exotic personality composites, and tinker around with the inner workings of the brain in ways that are either difficult or impossible to do with a meat brain. The simulation can be run many thousands of times faster than objective speed, if you've got enough computing power. This computer has a number of advantages over a meat human. If you do it carefully enough, the original brain won't even notice it happening. Either way, once you finish scanning the brain, you end up with a file that you run in a physics simulator, and presto, you have a computer that remembers being a human. ![]() Why reinvent the wheel, when you've got plenty of humans walking around? Who will miss one, right?Īlternatively, you might be one of those humans looking for easy immortality. ![]()
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