<div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 12:34 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 1:16 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 06/04/2023 16:50, gadersd wrote:<br>
> 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.<br>
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Well, that's encouraging. For mind-uploading, I mean. I don't remember <br>
who first suggested it, but it seems feasible that, if we have a generic <br>
Human Mind Template, that basically reproduces this <br>
common-to-all-human-brains structure, any individual mind would be a set <br>
of variations that can be applied to it. So mind-uploading wouldn't <br>
require scanning every single connection and weighting in the brain, but <br>
just the crucial ones that represent what makes someone an individual, <br>
applied to the 'standard human model'.<br>
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Once we've figured out what they are!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I don't know if I was the first person to propose this idea but I did discuss it with Anders Sandberg here many years ago.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A very similar idea just appeared in the latest episode of star trek (Picard, I think episode 9). Someone reveals that to save memory, their transporters use a template of human DNA most of which is common across humans, so they only need to detect and transmit the differences in memory.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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