[ExI] Uploads on a Postcard

[Gadersd]

> . I don't remember who first suggested it, but it seems feasible that, if we have a generic Human Mind Template, that basically reproduces this common-to-all-human-brains structure, any individual mind would be a set of variations that can be applied to it. So mind-uploading wouldn't require scanning every single connection and weighting in the brain, but just the crucial ones that represent what makes someone an individual, applied to the 'standard human model'.

All that is needed is a computer program that can simulate cells. We could simulate a sperm fertilizing an egg cell and then grow the entire human structure within a computer.

I suspect however that uploading human minds may be more straightforward than simulating every cell. It may be possible that the human mind can be emulated on a higher level of abstraction than cells.

> On Apr 6, 2023, at 1:14 PM, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On 06/04/2023 16:50, gadersd wrote:
>> It should be no surprise that the workings of the mind would be fundamentally simple. It must be simple enough to encode on DNA if not a postcard after all.
> 
> Well, that's encouraging. For mind-uploading, I mean. I don't remember who first suggested it, but it seems feasible that, if we have a generic Human Mind Template, that basically reproduces this common-to-all-human-brains structure, any individual mind would be a set of variations that can be applied to it. So mind-uploading wouldn't require scanning every single connection and weighting in the brain, but just the crucial ones that represent what makes someone an individual, applied to the 'standard human model'.
> 
> Once we've figured out what they are!
> 
> Figuring out the template will probably be quite difficult, but once done, it's done, and can be used for everyone who wishes to be uploaded.
> Once that's done, establishing what makes an individual different from the template will be an extension of the same procedure, but hopefully involving less data. Possibly a lot less. Maybe Greg Egan's concept of people beaming themselves around the galaxy as mind-states encoded on gamma ray lasers might be possible after all, one day.
> 
> Ben
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