[ExI] An expert explains ‘mind uploading’

[Kelly Anderson]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399/

very cool

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 5:55 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
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> We've already uploaded worm minds from their connectomes and put them into robot bodies.
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> Jason
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> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023, 7:21 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 3:01 PM BillK via extropy-chat
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > Could you move from your biological body to a computer?
>> > An expert explains ‘mind uploading’.
>> >
>> > Published: December 4, 2023
>> > Author  Clas Weber
>> > Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
>> >
>> > <https://theconversation.com/could-you-move-from-your-biological-body-to-a-computer-an-expert-explains-mind-uploading-218035>
>> >
>> > Quotes:
>> > This is the concept behind mind uploading – the idea that we may one
>> > day be able to transition a person from their biological body to a
>> > synthetic hardware. The idea originated in an intellectual movement
>> > called transhumanism and has several key advocates including computer
>> > scientist Ray Kurzweil, philosopher Nick Bostrom and neuroscientist
>> > Randal Koene.
>> >
>> > The feasibility of mind uploading rests on three core assumptions.
>> >
>> > First is the technology assumption – the idea that we will be able to
>> > develop mind uploading technology within the coming decades.
>> > Second is the artificial mind assumption – the idea that a simulated
>> > brain would give rise to a real mind
>> > and third is the survival assumption – the idea that the person
>> > created in the process is really “you”.
>> > Only then does mind uploading become a way for you to live on.
>> >
>> > How plausible is each of these?
>>
>> They are very complex, but there is nothing I know about that would
>> make it impossible.
>>
>> But for marketing reasons, you want it to be bidirectional.  You spend
>> a weekend in the uploaded state and go back to a meat body on Monday
>> (with continuity of memory from the time in the uploaded state).  This
>> is technically no harder than one way.
>>
>> I think uploaded people may keep their physical bodies stored for a
>> very long time.  Sentimental.
>>
>> Keith
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>> > BillK
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