Making a copy of your brain before you die
When the singularity occurs I'm going to have my brain uploaded to a virtual world and ask ppl if they want to cyber me.
shareBut will they cyber you? or would they be cybering your copy?
I hope its not a copy, because essentially it is YOU, but not really you. You'd still die, another you would still be alive. But not the original you. It may be a great comfort for your friends and family but essentially you're dead. Personally, i'd like if they'd be able to develop away to not just make a copy but upload your mind into it, so it is actually you.
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Oh my young padawans, you have only glimpsed a small piece of the possibilites.
In programming there is a technology called forking, from "to fork". Essentially a program can create a new addressspace which mirrors itself - it is not a mirror but comes close in effect. It takes no additional resources, it is just a logical construct. Then this different instance is processing data and possibly delivering this data back to the parent process.
Now imagine this method on a digital copy of a human: Instead of doing an boring work for hours you simply fork several instances of yourself and let those child processes work in parallel. In fact it wouldn't need much additional resources because the framework itself is simply reused in a transparent way. Recombining the data output would even allow for "experiencing" several completely different actions at once.
Now that we talk about it, in the science fiction series "Perry Rhodan" (running since 1961) there is a concept of highly evolved super intelligences which gather and recombine humans into super-human but still sub-super-intelligent "Concepts". So while there are little movies out (anyone?) it is a pretty old concept in written science fiction.
I hope its not a copy, because essentially it is YOU, but not really you. You'd still die, another you would still be alive. But not the original you. It may be a great comfort for your friends and family but essentially you're dead. Personally, i'd like if they'd be able to develop away to not just make a copy but upload your mind into it, so it is actually you.
Well, your brain IS you. Your mind IS the copy. If it was downloaded into 3 copies, those 3 copies will be YOU! But will of course start making different memories from that point onwards, due to experience. share
I hope its not a copy, because essentially it is YOU, but not really you. You'd still die, another you would still be alive. But not the original you. It may be a great comfort for your friends and family but essentially you're dead. Personally, i'd like if they'd be able to develop away to not just make a copy but upload your mind into it, so it is actually you.
Well, your brain IS you. Your mind IS the copy. If it was downloaded into 3 copies, those 3 copies will be YOU! But will of course start making different memories from that point onwards, due to experience. share