[ExI] An expert explains ‘mind uploading’

[BillK]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 08:44, Samantha via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> We have been beating this particular horse for at least three decades that I know of.
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> What is a "computer"?  Seriously, is it reasonable to label as "computer" with its connotations today whatever substrate can contain a human mind or perhaps several?    Is that label a device to cast shade on the possibility from the beginning?
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> What if you have machine phase nanotech and rod-logic hyper tiny computers through your brain that simply take over more and more of the functioning of your brain over time.  Is that still you?
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> Are you still you when you are knocked out for surgery and then find yourself apparently back in reality and in apparently your same body?  What if you were instead in a coma for years?     Or if part of your brain was damaged and replaced with future tech?
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> What is this "you" in the first place?  Have you inquired into it much?
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> All of these arguments and more we have discussed many times and entertained ourselves with their slipperiness to come to firm conclusions by head tripping about it.
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> What can we simply build and what can we change in ourselves to perhaps get us closer to being able to try it?
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> - samantha
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Hi Samantha

Yes, I agree, but from 30 years ago, some people have left and new
people have joined Exi-chat.

Since ChatGPT LLM was released last year, the idea of AI has spread
rapidly. Mostly to younger people who are now meeting these weird
ideas for the first time. The uploading article shows that what was
once a niche discussion in the 1990s is now acceptable to be discussed
in polite company.  :)

The hope is that AI will assist humans in the design of much that was
discussed here in 1990-2010.
(Not forgetting the arrival of AGI and the Singularity).  :)


BillK