[ExI] seamless uploading

[Giulio Prisco]

I have always thought "slow" uploading via implants / BCI is one of
the most promising paths to uploading.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Extropes,
>
> I want to apologize if this post here is a case of "Well, duh!".  You
> know, obvious to all except me, and I'm just catching up now.
>
> I was reading this piece from Brian Wang's Blog, Next Big Future:
>
> How long until there is a significantly independent robot economy and
> how quickly could computer brain interfaces improve ?
>
> http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/how-long-until-there-is-significantly.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail
>
> Focusing on the brain interface aspect, Brian provides the following:
>
> Kyle [Munkittrick] recently made the case for a Cybernetic Singularity
>
> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/06/25/towards-a-new-vision-of-the-singularity/
>
>    "The Singularity should be re-imagined as a cybernetic process in
> which the human mind is progressively augmented with better and more
> complimentary artificial left-brain capacities. The Singularity will
> be the perfection of the mind-computer interface, such that where the
> mental processes of the human right-brain ends and the high-powered
> computer left-brain ends will be indistinguishable both externally by
> objective observation and internally by the subjective experience of
> the individual. I call this event the Cybernetic Singularity."
>
> Then Brian continues:
>
> "If we get enough memory and a high traffic wetbrain to computer brain
> connection so that there is a shared consciousness from the wetbrain
> with the added part. Then over days/months and years there is
> consciousness over both parts. Memory and visual stimuli spanning both
> systems and we can ensure thorough copying and duplication."
>
> [Here I paraphrase Brian's text]:  If then you suffer a "shutoff"(as
> used below) of the wetbrain, consciousness and identity continue, and
> you achieve a full and seamless upload (ie transfer of consciousness).
>
> "By being able to have consciousness span current brain and new brain
> for a sufficient period of time and having real time consciousness
> operating throughout the upload and eventual shutoff there would be
> less issue over is consciousness preserved."
>
>
> **********************************************
>
> The article and its links provide a wealth of info showing just how
> far along this process has advanced.
>
> Over the years the list has hashed and rehashed -- delightfully -- the
> upload and its related identity issue(s).  Brain scanning of the
> biological self followed by transfer into an alternative substrate --
> "cloned" or manufactured biological, android cybernetic, or pure boxed
> computronium.  This is the first time I have encountered an upload
> scenario that feels like a real world real tech roadmap.  Persuasively
> achievable.
>
> Reminiscent of a short-story fragment posted to the list In 98 or 99
> by Anders, about a cybernetically "connected" individual who
> experiences a sense of severe intellectual deficit when his machine
> connection goes down.  That was however a case of computer brain
> crash, rather than wet brain "retirement".
>
> Over the years I have repeatedly expressed my utter delight at living
> in and witnessing this juggernaut of science and technology.  Not just
> reading and dreaming about what might be possible, but actually
> watching the wonders of imagination tumble forth into reality.  Each
> time, I thought to myself that the pace would remain more or less the
> same, and that I could handle it, could absorb it.  By which I mean
> superficially, to be sure.  Now things are coming at me so fast I
> can't keep up, not even superficially.
>
> Anyone else feel similar?  What about you younger folks (I'm
> sixty-two, now.  How the hell did that happen?! I don't feel
> sixty-two)? Do you feel more in synch, more in control?
>
> Best, Jeff Davis
>
>  "My guess is that people don't yet realize how
>     "handy" an indefinite lifespan will be."
>                       J Corbally
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