How much longer until we're going to be able to upload our consciousness into a computer?
How much longer until we're going to be able to upload our consciousness into a computer?
Mason Robinson
Lincoln Ramirez
Won't happen in our lifetime
Brandon Howard
You will never be able to experience life as a computer in order to avoid death. You may teach a computer to mimic your thought patterns with amazing accuracy, but you will never be able to BE that computer.
Sorry, but when you're dead, you're dead.
Henry Cook
this comic is depressing as hell, mainly because it's true
Nathaniel Gomez
>You may teach a computer to mimic your thought patterns with amazing accuracy
Good enough for me
Luke Peterson
Just like quantum teleportation will never be anything but constructing an identical body at the destination and having to dispose of the original.
Elijah Cooper
Oh, then in that case, you can already do it. There are some artificial intelligence chatbots capable of mimicking people with astounding accuracy.
Christopher Young
No there isn't you idiot.
Jacob Brown
>soma.png
Ryder Perez
The trick is to do it gradually (Ship of Theseus style). Consciousness is an illusion, as the comic illustrates: there is no difference between your brain being simulated on silicon or on carbon. Connect the brain to the computer, and *slowly* start replacing wetware neurons by software neurons, you won't feel the difference but you'll slowly become completely simulated in software. Once 100% of the neurons have been replaced, It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Mortal Corpse.
That's also why you should never step into a transporter, by the way.
Lucas Reed
You're fucking retarded.
Neuron cells die and get replaced just like any other cell in the body. Replace a single neuron with a synthetic version and you are still you.
Then replace two and you are still you.
Then 3.
4
5
Eventually you will be more synthetic then biological.
Once fully synthetic replace the synthetic hardware with hardware emulated in a computer and live like a fucking GOD
Brayden Gray
Neurons are not static. New ones can grow in response to stimuluses. If you replace the organic matter with unchanging synthetic neurons, the person may develop mental illness and lose sanity because their brains can't morph over time.
Gavin Harris
I'm a clueless pseudo-scientist: The Post
(seriously, consider suicide)
Julian Morales
This is the only way to still survive.
Gavin Bailey
I found it to be a very shallow reflection. Mainly because the player character is the lowest common denominator.
Brody Allen
Yes there are you double idiot
Nolan Gutierrez
Please do consider hanging yourself soon if you legitimately think that would work.
Benjamin Walker
>be ignorant retard
>read words
>feel stupid
>be rude and mean, because maybe it will make even stupider people think I'm cool.
Isaiah Smith
You are literally describing the post they were replying to.
Ethan Gutierrez
this is what it'll actually be like
youtube.com
Aiden Cox
tomorrow
Aiden Baker
This is why we need to kill all lawyers
Alexander Russell
forgetting the specifics the ontological question remains
Thomas Brown
lol, try asking the chatbot a question it hasn't heard before
John Wright
>implying we don't "die" when we go to sleep and multiple times per day without noticing
Alexander Parker
Thats the issue. When you make an identical copy of yourself and have the exact same thoughts. And the original died the very moment you are teleported.
Is that you or someone else?
Zachary Williams
*stimuli
Neurons can be static without mental illness.
Carson Perry
Even if possible, you can only copy a consciousness, you can't transfer it.
You will die, no matter what.
Gabriel Sanchez
Please at least finish primary school before posting.
The amount of unironical wrong in this post is cringe, not even in the fun way.
Hudson Taylor
I would make soooooo many fucking copies of myself. I would make a cooperative army of just myself.
James Nelson
So, the physical ronnie must be kiled for the virtual one to exist freely, who is the one who kills him anyway?
Blake Young
>I don't care if I die as long as there's some stupid software out there mimicking me forever
ultimate cuck
Daniel Butler
>Once fully synthetic replace the synthetic hardware with hardware emulated in a computer and live like a fucking GOD
I got some spare neurons if you need some user.
Leo Thompson
>implying we don't die each time we make a step and our atoms disappear from where they were a moment ago and appear where they are now
Isaac Peterson
We're all going to die
Luke Baker
Colton Davis
I hope this guy is right.
Levi Watson
Continuity of consciousness is an illusion anyways. If you destroy the original during the scanning process then it's literally no different from "transferring".
inb4 m-muh soul
Robert Brooks
>slowly
And why does that matter? It's literally no different than rebuilding an exact copy in a physically different location or even at some indeterminate time in the future.
Sebastian Young
I remember having this thread the first time I ever clicked on this board
and years later, everyone is still retarded
Owen Diaz
>How much longer until we're going to be able to upload our consciousness into a computer?
why would you? what the fuck is the point of constructing some device and software to dump and execute the exact structure and data in your mind? sounds like it will literally never happen and it's a waste of time.
Elijah King
legit, I'd rather build a machine that could deprecate humanity than worry about my shitty mortality.
the only way I can imagine living forever is if you manage to find a way to fully control entropy, as in reverse it or otherwise.
Julian Wilson
literally never, it doesn't work like that. It can only be copied, not uploaded. Your "consciousness" is just a set of neuronal impulses. They exist physically, in your brain.
>but muh cell regenerashun
your neurons never regenerate.
Sorry to bust the bubble OP, you will only exist as long as your brain does. Have a lewd anime girl as consolation.
Isaac Brooks
Pretty sure Michio Kaku disagrees.
Mason Nelson
>having to dispose of the original
que?
Oliver Jenkins
Did Ronnie Predict Zero Time Dilemma?
Hudson Stewart
Ronny makes comics that aren’t just about him being a fat weaboo?
Henry Fisher
>your neurons never regenerate.
This is actually a topic of debate. Adult neurogenesis does occur but only in select areas of the brain, namely the hippocampus. Beyond that there is a concept called neuroplasticity. which is effectively a means for the brain to adapt to damage and environmental stressors (like the Taxi Driver study) which actually compounds both topics fairly neatly. [ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Without modelling the latter at the very least, it'd hard to say how accurate any sort of copy could be rendered. There's also things like the circadian rhythms and endocrine systems which have a significant amount of play in the human psyche especially. Fianlly you'd have to be able to simulate interactions that occur on a quantum level (like vision) to apply accurate stimuli to the simulated brain. There's really an endless number of caveats and bounds to constrain the whole of the concept.
Aaron Cruz
is this a splatoon character
Xavier Lee
> How much longer until we're going to be able to upload our consciousness into a computer?
Not in your lifetime.
They'll probably only start to grasp ways in which something like that might be done long after you're dead.
Leo King
>your neurons never regenerate.
It seems more like they generally don't, but not never.
Figures it's maybe a biological compromise to reduce the chance of doing more damage to the functionality of your brain programs as repairs happen.
Not necessarily something man can't manipulate eventually, but it may very well be that we'd have to do our own thing and introduce erasure codes or something before it's actually a better compromise than what already happens? Well, even this is probably still far out there...
Jordan White
Hopefully never. The only thing the 1% and elite can't buy is a cure for death (though God knows they're trying). It's comforting to know that even the high and mighty will be brought low by the great equalizer in the end.
Levi Davis
need your body to get used to it. also, it emulates your natural process in the body better. also, imo, unless of we figure out the brain works, i think its water to create replacement for cells than to create a replacement of the whole thing. like if the brain was a house, and what normally does the repairs is a builder, it would be easier to give the builder materials to fix the house with than to build your own house and replace everything yourself.
Lucas Butler
Jayden Sullivan
New neurons can grow while the old ones stay. Synthetic neurons cannot do this, unless they are the same as regular neurons in their inability to be transferred to a computer.
Isaiah Barnes
To give an actual answer:
Nobody knows if it's possible and if, how it would work. So maybe it'll happen in the next decade, or it may not happen at all. We just can't say.
Juan Wood
If someone deleted your "consciousness" file would that count as murder?
Asher Barnes
You guys seriously need to read the Bible.
Justin Reed
>spill your beer on main server's keyboard
>get tried for genocide
Logan Jones
Never. You are the physical neurons in your brain. Any deviation is a copy.