Artificial Brain 10 years?

[rp4prez]

So in my daily reading I read where we humans might be able to make an artificial brain in about 10 years! Wow! Cool right? So a question came up in my brain. What if you were to download your consciousness to a computer, take out your own brain, drop in an artificial one, upload your consciousness to that new brain. Would you die? hm...

Think of it like this. You go to sleep, someone downloads your consciousness to a computer, they take your brain out and replace it, then upload your consciousness, and you wake up! Would "you" be dead?

Here's link to article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8164060.stm

 

[Kludge]

What if you were to download your consciousness to a computer, take out your own brain, drop in an artificial one, upload your consciousness to that new brain. Would you die?

Almost certainly.

 

[sevin]

So in my daily reading I read where we humans might be able to make an artificial brain in about 10 years! Wow! Cool right? So a question came up in my brain. What if you were to download your consciousness to a computer, take out your own brain, drop in an artificial one, upload your consciousness to that new brain. Would you die? hm...

Yes. When you download a human mind to a computer, the mind is destroyed and a copy is made which resides on the computer. You die, and a copy of yourself lives on.

 

[Kraig]

Yes. When you download a human mind to a computer, the mind is destroyed and a copy is made which resides on the computer. You die, and a copy of yourself lives on.

That would be so awesome!

 

[torchbearer]

Yes. When you download a human mind to a computer, the mind is destroyed and a copy is made which resides on the computer. You die, and a copy of yourself lives on.

then your conscious self lives on?
can the program then interact and learn?

won't be long until they can save your mind, then clone your body, and upload the information to the new body.

space travel here we come!

 

[Working Poor]

maybe it's already been done and we just think we are still here.

 

[torchbearer]

maybe it's already been done and we just think we are still here.

cool. then we live forever.

 

[Original_Intent]

maybe it's already been done and we just think we are still here.

That's my theory. We are in the Matrix for reals.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

This is sort of like the TV show Dollhouse.

 

[DAaaMan64]

Sweet, Futurama here we come.

 

[RideTheDirt]

cool. then we live forever.

until the hard drive crashes...

 

[rp4prez]

haha.. sometimes I really like these forums!

 

[satchelmcqueen]

i want my mind on a ron paul stickered flash drive.

 

[TortoiseDream]

there's a cool short story you might be interested in:

http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

also, if you could store someone's consciousness on a computer, who's to say that you couldn't then email them halfway across the world? think about it.

 

[torchbearer]

until the hard drive crashes...

backup of backups. i'm paying for at least a Raid 1.

 

[ClayTrainor]

there's a cool short story you might be interested in:

http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

also, if you could store someone's consciousness on a computer, who's to say that you couldn't then email them halfway across the world? think about it.

Or maybe even Mars! (eventually)

 

[TortoiseDream]

Or maybe even Mars! (eventually)

or how about this, MAKE COPIES!!!!

i wouldn't mind a few copies of zooey deschanel though

 

[ChaosControl]

You'd die, your mental clone lives on.
Although from your perception you wouldn't know. The self that lives on would know no difference than we recognize when we go to sleep and wake up.

Regardless of that though, no matter where we get in terms of artificial minds, you'd never be able to "download" or "upload" your mind to another. The best that could happen is this artificial mind could be programmed with memories that were described by you, but you couldn't just extra your current memories and knowledge.

 

[Alawn]

You die

 

[brandon]

Hopefully it's not running windows